However, when Kanto moshitsugi gradually sided more with Jimyoin-to due to a private relationship of the head of the Saionji family and Daikakuji-to (the head was on bad terms with Daikakuji-to), Daikakuji-to came to communicate with the bakufu directly, and Kanto moshitsugi came to lose its power rapidly as the 14-th century started.
だが、西園寺家当主の個人的関係（大覚寺統側との不仲）から次第に持明院統よりの態度を取るようになると大覚寺統は申次を無視して幕府との直接交渉を展開するようになり、14世紀に入ると急速に求心力を失っていく。