Because of the incidents such as Shie Incident of 1627, and another in which Fuku (Kasuga no tsubone), the wet nurse of Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, went to the Imperial Palace as a common citizen, the Emperor could not take the situation whereby he had to live with the humiliation from the Edo government, so he abdicated the throne on November 8, 1627 and passed the position to his second daughter, Imperial Princess Okiko (later called Empress Meisho).
寛永4年（1627年）に紫衣事件、徳川家光の乳母である福（春日局）が無位無官で朝廷に参内するなど天皇の権威を失墜させる江戸幕府のおこないに耐えかねた天皇は同6年11月8日、二女の興子内親王（のちの明正天皇）に譲位した。