There was another example of keeping an ear close to the ground by assigning Sama no kami to both Yoshiaki ASHIKAGA (later the 15th shogun), Yoshiteru's younger brother, and Yoshihide ASHIKAGA (later the 14th shogun), Yoshiteru's cousin, who declared bid for a successor after the Eiroku Incident in which Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA was killed.
足利義輝が殺害された永禄の変後に後継者として名乗りを上げた弟の足利義昭（後の15代将軍）と従兄弟の足利義栄（後の14代将軍）をともに左馬頭に任じて事態の推移を見守った例もあった。