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''[[Wakadoshiyori]]'' [[Hongo Yasukata|Hongô Yasukata]], ''[[Sobashu|Sobashû]]'' [[Ishiko Masahira|Ishikô Masahira]], and one of the shogun's court physicians, [[Oka Rekisen'in]], were among many others also dismissed from their positions and placed under house arrest.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 7.</ref>
 
''[[Wakadoshiyori]]'' [[Hongo Yasukata|Hongô Yasukata]], ''[[Sobashu|Sobashû]]'' [[Ishiko Masahira|Ishikô Masahira]], and one of the shogun's court physicians, [[Oka Rekisen'in]], were among many others also dismissed from their positions and placed under house arrest.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 7.</ref>
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In a later round of purges in 1859/8, Tokugawa Yoshinobu was forced to retire from his position as head of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]] and to enter house confinement; Tokugawa Yoshiatsu and his father Tokugawa Nariaki were also sentenced to house confinement along with their ''[[karo|karô]]'' [[Nakayama Nobutomi]]. A number of former and current ''bugyô'' and other figures prominent in foreign affairs in preceding years, including [[Nagai Naoyuki]], [[Iwase Tadanari]], [[Kawaji Toshiakira]], [[Asano Nagayoshi]], and [[Okubo Tadahiro|Ôkubo Tadahiro]] were also stripped of their positions and/or stipends and/or were sentenced to house confinement. A number of high-ranking Mito domain retainers including [[Ajima Tatewaki]], [[Chinone Iyonosuke]], and [[Ukai Kichizaemon]] were sentenced to death, while Kichizaemon's son [[Ukai Kokichi|Ukai Kôkichi]] was imprisoned, and Mito domain retainer [[Ayuzawa Idayu]] was banished to an outer island along with [[Kobayashi Yoshisuke]], a ''shotaifu'' retainer to the [[Takatsukasa family]]. Confucian scholar [[Ikeuchi Daigaku]] was also exiled at this time, and [[Tsuzaki Noriko]], a female elder (''Rôjo'') in service to the [[Konoe family]] was imprisoned.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 209-210.</ref>  
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In a later round of purges in 1859/8, Tokugawa Yoshinobu was forced to retire from his position as head of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]] and to enter house confinement; Tokugawa Yoshiatsu and his father Tokugawa Nariaki were also sentenced to house confinement along with their ''[[karo|karô]]'' [[Nakayama Nobutomi]]. A number of former and current ''bugyô'' and other figures prominent in foreign affairs in preceding years, including [[Nagai Naoyuki]], [[Iwase Tadanari]], [[Kawaji Toshiakira]], [[Asano Nagayoshi]], and [[Okubo Tadahiro|Ôkubo Tadahiro]] were also stripped of their positions and/or stipends and/or were sentenced to house confinement. A number of high-ranking Mito domain retainers including [[Ajima Tatewaki]], [[Chinone Iyonosuke]], and [[Ukai Kichizaemon]] were sentenced to death, while Kichizaemon's son [[Ukai Kokichi|Ukai Kôkichi]] was imprisoned, and Mito domain retainer [[Ayuzawa Idayu]] was banished to an outer island along with [[Kobayashi Yoshisuke]], a ''shotaifu'' retainer to the [[Takatsukasa family]]. Confucian scholar [[Ikeuchi Daigaku]] was also exiled at this time, and [[Tsuzaki Noriko]], a female elder (''Rôjo'') in service to the [[Konoe family]] was imprisoned.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 209-210.</ref>
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The following month, shogunate officials [[Udono Nagatoshi]], [[Kurokawa Kahei]], [[Hirayama Yoshitada]], [[Hiraoka Enshiro|Hiraoka Enshirô]], and [[Takasu Tetsujiro|Takasu Tetsujirô]] were also dismissed from their posts and forced into house confinement.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 217.</ref>
    
While the Purge helped Naosuke consolidate power in the hands of his supporters, it also contributed significantly to the anger of his opponents, leading eventually to his assassination in [[1860]] in the [[Sakuradamongai Incident]].
 
While the Purge helped Naosuke consolidate power in the hands of his supporters, it also contributed significantly to the anger of his opponents, leading eventually to his assassination in [[1860]] in the [[Sakuradamongai Incident]].
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