However, while Hidetsugu was serving as Kampaku, government and the household were in the grip of the Taiko, Hideyoshi, and he later had a dispute with Hideyoshi and fell from grace.
しかし、秀次は関白職にありながら、政権及び家督は太閤たる秀吉の掌中にあり、後に秀吉と対立して失脚することとなった。