Additionally, since grand persons of the Fujiwara clan died one after another, national administration was managed by TACHIBANA no Moroe (maternal half-brother of the Empress Komyo).
また藤原氏の重鎮が相次いで亡くなったため、国政は橘諸兄（光明皇后とは異父兄弟にあたる）が取り仕切っていた。