When the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) required an imperial sanction for the conclusion of the Treaty of commerce of the Imperial Court in 1858, he opposed against it as one of the Teishin hachiju-hachi kyo (eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court). |
安政5年(1858年)、幕府が朝廷に対して通商条約締結の勅許を求めた際、廷臣八十八卿の一人として反対論を展開した。 |