 This drew the wrath of the "Sonnō jōi" samurai, and Yoshida Shōin in particular pushed strongly for Manabe's assassination.After the assassination of IInaosuke and accession of Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Akikatsu quickly fell from favour.He was dismissed as "rōjū" and told to retire in 1862, and Sabae Domain was reduced in "kokudaka" by 10,000 "koku".