However in 1690 Motohiro KONOE who was supported by the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), caused Kaneteru ICHIJO's downfall, supported by the Retired Emperor Reigen, and took actual political power of the Imperial government, after that, a conflict started to deepened between the Chancellor Motohiro KONOE and Emperor Reigen's cloistered government, called 'the distance between the bakufu.'
しかし1690年には幕府の後押しを受ける近衛基熙が霊元上皇の後押しを受ける一条兼輝を失脚させて朝廷政治の実権を掌握したため、その後、関白近衛基熙と霊元天皇の院政との間で｢幕府との距離｣をめぐって対立が深まった。