| As the bakufu was short of manpower at the Battle of Toba and Fushimi, he was appointed as a commander, and even after the fall of Edo Castle, he fought the army of the new government at Ichikawa, Funabashi and the like, eventually being injured and withdrawing from the battlefront. |
鳥羽伏見の戦いでは、人材不足の幕府側の指揮官として戦ったことが認められ、江戸城開城後も市川・船橋戦争などで新政府軍と戦うも負傷して戦線を離脱する。 |