The contents of the petition included the remission and reinstatement of those punished due to Ansei no Taigoku (suppression of extremists by the shogunate), Yoshinaga MATSUDAIRA, former lord of the Echizen Domain, to assume Tario (chief minister), Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA to act as guardian for Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians", also called as Shogun) and the crackdown of the roshi who radically supported Sonno joi.
その内容は、安政の大獄の処分者の赦免および復権、前越前藩主松平慶永の大老就任、徳川慶喜を征夷大将軍後見とする、過激派尊攘浪士を厳しく取り締まる、などから成っていた。