The cabinet officials of the Shogunate belonged to the Nanki group, which recommended Yoshitomi TOKUGAWA from the Kisyu-Tokugawa family (later Iemochi TOKUGAWA) for the shogun successor issue and then Yoshitomi became the 14th Shogun after the lord of the Hikone domain, Naosuke II became Tairo (chief minister). |
幕閣では将軍後継問題で紀州徳川家の徳川慶福(後の徳川家茂)を推す南紀派で彦根藩主の井伊直弼が大老となり、14代将軍後継は慶福に決定する。 |