After the death of Takechika MATSUDAIRA, however, he wound up gradually leaving the Bakufu affairs to Okitsugu TANUMA, who was appointed as Roju, and increasingly indulging himself in pleasure like Shogi (a Japanese board game resembling chess) and so on, which means that he ran counter to his grandfather Yoshimune's expectations after all.
しかし松平武元が死去すると次第に幕政を老中に任命した田沼意次に任せ、自らは好きな将棋などの趣味に没頭することが多くなり、結局祖父・吉宗の期待には応えられなかった。