Upon the end of the war he fled to Mino, and after the death of his nephew Yoshihisa and his older brother Yoshimasa he backed his son Yoshiki as the tenth shogun and controlled shogunal politics as the doyen (guardian) until his death, which came a year after that of his brother.
乱後は美濃に亡命し、甥の義尚と兄の義政の死後、子の義材を第10代将軍に擁立して自らは大御所（後見人）として幕政を牛耳ったが、兄の死から1年後に死去した。