The direct reason for Kaneyoshi's appointment to Kanpaku in the first place was the death of the former Kanpaku, Yoshitada NIJO, from disease, but Daijo-daijin Iehisa KONOE, who maintained his domination of the court for three generations through Motohiro and Iehiro KONOE, also died of a disease the same year, and Munehiro NIJO, who had just become Udaijin, died from disease the following year soon after his father, Yoshitada.
そもそも兼香の関白就任の直接の要因は、前任の二条吉忠の病死によるものであったが、この年には基熙・家熙と並んで3代にわたって朝廷で優位を保ってきた太政大臣近衛家久も病死、更に翌年には右大臣になったばかりの二条宗熙が父・吉忠の後を追うように病死した。