Yoshimura, together with Gizo MIYAJI, counted on Genzui KUSAKA of Choshu and entered Osaka City by sea and joined Seiichiro HONMA, who was a royalist from Echigo Province, in the residence of Choshu Domain.
吉村は宮地宜蔵とともに長州の久坂玄瑞を頼り、海路大阪市へ入り、長州藩邸で越後国の志士本間精一郎と合流した。