With the breakout of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) power struggles, during the Meio no seihen (the Meio era coup), when the shogunate was split between the camp of Yoshizumi ASHIKAGA and that of Yoshitane ASHIKAGA, the Kuge clan fell to Shogun Yoshitane.
室町幕府の権力闘争により起きた明応の政変によって将軍家が足利義澄派と足利義稙派に分かれると、久下氏は将軍義稙につき没落。