Although Akiteru was appointed to Kurodo (Chamberlain), the government post the Kashuji family had been successively appointed to, he shut himself off from the public, saying that he was 'exhausted and sick' from the lingering various problems surrounding him after showing 'behavioral disorder' at 'Hojoe (the ritual for releasing living beings)' in the autumn of 1846. (The section of February 14, the 4th year of Koka era in "Yamashiro no Kuni Kyoto SODEOKA Genbanosuke Kaki" [The Family Chronicle of Genbanosuke SODEOKA in Kyoto, Yamashiro Province] written by Fumikage SODEOKA [a Zassho [or Karei: butler] of the Kashuji family]).
天保14年（1843年）に顕彰は勧修寺家歴代が補任されてきた蔵人に任じられたものの、彼を取り巻く諸問題が尾を引いた結果、弘化3年（1846年）秋の放生会での「御混乱」をきっかけに「所労」を理由に自宅に引き籠ってしまったのである（袖岡文景（勧修寺家雑掌）『山城国京都袖岡玄蕃助家記』弘化4年2月14日条）。