The drum and bugle corps for the procession of Meiji Restoration and Restoration royalists, which are in the forward part of the Jidai procession, are conscripted army of farmer loyalists, Yamaguni platoon used to be composed of actual veterans from the first festival in 1895 to sometime in the Taisho period.
行列前方、明治維新・維新勤王隊列の鼓笛隊は官軍の山国隊で、明治28年の第1回から大正時代までは生存していた元隊士が行列に参加していた。