Investiture of Daijo-daijin while living was rare, but as a posthumous honor, it was sometimes given to Sessho and Kanpaku, to maternal grandfathers of the emperor, and to Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") in the Edo period
生前の叙任が少ない太政大臣は、死後の贈官として、摂関、天皇の外祖父、江戸時代の征夷大将軍などに贈られることがある。