The strategy aimed at driving other clans out of power and strengthening one's own power through marriage with the Imperial Family was inherited by FUJIWARA no Mototsune, the adopted son of Yoshifusa and a maternal relative of Emperor Yozei, who acted as regent for the young Emperor and as chief adviser to the Emperor once he had reached adulthood.
皇室と姻戚関係を結ぶことにより他氏を排斥し権力を増強する路線は良房の養子藤原基経に引き継がれ陽成天皇の外戚として、幼帝の摂政、成人してからは関白を務めた。