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In [[1862]], Shungaku received a document containing "three emergency measures" from [[Kiyokawa Hachiro|Kiyokawa Hachirô]]. He then formed the [[Roshigumi|Rôshigumi]], hiring a group of ''[[ronin]]'' to help guard Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] on a [[1863]] trip to [[Kyoto]]. In conjunction with these responsibilities, Shungaku was named ''seiji sôsaishoku'', a high-ranking government oversight position.
In [[1862]], Shungaku received a document containing "three emergency measures" from [[Kiyokawa Hachiro|Kiyokawa Hachirô]]. He then formed the [[Roshigumi|Rôshigumi]], hiring a group of ''[[ronin]]'' to help guard Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] on a [[1863]] trip to [[Kyoto]]. In conjunction with these responsibilities, Shungaku was named ''seiji sôsaishoku'', a high-ranking government oversight position.
Shungaku is known to have been an avid collector of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock prints, and it has been suggested that the production of pictorial records of Iemochi's trip to Kyoto by ''ukiyo-e'' artists rather than by those of the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] may have been his idea.<ref>Daniele Lauro, "Displaying authority: Guns, political legitimacy, and martial pageantry in Tokugawa Japan, 1600 - 1868," MA Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2013), 31-32.</ref>
In the last years of the Bakumatsu period, Shungaku, along with [[Yamauchi Yodo|Yamauchi Yôdô]], were among those who debated the possibility of a more democratic form of government, based on public opinion.
In the last years of the Bakumatsu period, Shungaku, along with [[Yamauchi Yodo|Yamauchi Yôdô]], were among those who debated the possibility of a more democratic form of government, based on public opinion.
