However, it became too hard for Kageaki to protect him, and in May 1359, he was sent to the senior vassal of the Northern Court (Japan), Tamesada NIJO who was his uncle on his mother's side.
しかし、景顕も親王を守り切れなくなり、正平14年（1359年）4月に親王の母方の伯父、京の北朝(日本)の重臣二条為定の許に届けられた。