Baku-matsu Pilgrimage to the East

We had a 2-day family trip to Fukui and Gifu. I drove more than 780km in total; about 320km for the first day, and about 460km for the second. We will never have this kind of family trip again, so that was my last chance as a long distance family driver.
On the first day of the trip, we visited Fukui city to see "baku-matsu" related buildings and monuments. We found the monument which showed the site of Yokoi Konami's home, but could not find that of Yuri Kosei's. In my younger daughter's idea, Yuri played a bigger role in Meiji Restoration. Later we visited Sanai-cho (Sanai Town), which is named Hashimoto Sanai, another "baku-matsu" character, who was executed just before the beginning of the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. There is even a garden to memorialize him. Some are remembered better than others. Is that what we say there is no accounting for tastes? Or is there another kind rule for that?
On the second day, we drove around Gifu prefecture. We went into the region from the Northwestern corner, drove past to the Easternmost part of it, Magome. Nagano prefecture is just beyond the pass. The village is a historic site which conserves some medieval buildings and preserves its appearance somewhat as a medieval post station along Nakasen-do, one of the 5 biggest highways then. Of course, we visited there because Shinsen-gumi moved from Edo (today's Tokyo) to Kyoto through Nakasen-do, to "restore order" in the old capital, or, you might say, to be one of the terrorist groups there.
Driving westward to come home, I wondered what dreams Shinsen-gumi people had in their minds on their way to the West.