Iwakura demanded the following items: that Yoshinobu should present himself before the grand government's general to offer his personal apology; that the Tokugawa family line would be allowed to continue, once Iesato TOKUGAWA (the child of Yoshinori TOKUGAWA) became successor; but the Tokugawa family should be relocated to either the northern or southern provinces; within a territory having a area of between 700,000 koku (with approximately 126 million liters of crop yield) to 500,000 koku (with approximately 90,000,000 liters of crop yield).
慶喜自ら総督府に出頭して謝罪すること、徳川家は徳川家達（徳川慶頼の子）に相続させるが、北国もしくは西国に移して石高は70万石ないし50万石とすることなどを要求した。