Furthermore, the Kampaku alone among nobles was required to visit the Imperial palace daily (to put it another way, the power of those not required to do so seemed less in comparison the Kampaku's), and throughout the Edo period appointment to Daijo Daijin was limited to those who had been Tokugawa clan, Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") and Sessho/Kampaku, so the quality of the reception at the Imperial palace was on another level.
また、公家の中で関白にのみ御所への日参が義務付けられる（逆に言えば、その義務の無い他の公家の権力への関与の度合いが関白に比べて大きく低下する）一方で、太政大臣の任官が江戸時代を通じて徳川氏征夷大将軍と摂政・関白経験者のみに限定されるなど、宮中での待遇の厚さは格別なものがあった。