Given this state of affairs, when Ietsugu died of illness while still a child and Yoshimune TOKUGAWA--upon the recommendation of the Fudai daimyo and the Shogun's group of consorts--was chosen to succeed him as the 8th Shogun, Akifusa and Hakuseki entirely lost their political base and were driven from power.
そのため、家継が幼少のまま病没し、譜代大名や大奥などの推挙で徳川吉宗が8代将軍に就任すると、両人は一切の政治的基盤を喪失し失脚した。