While no person in the HOJO clan wanted to take up the regency, fearing the wrath of Yasuie and the Adachi clan, Moritoki HOJO, the chief of Hikitsukeshu (coadjustors of the high court), was at last appointed to the post on June 3, becoming the last Shikken of the HOJO clan.
貞顕の出家後、泰家と安達氏の憤りを恐れて北条一門に執権のなり手がいない中、ようやく4月24日に引付衆一番頭人北条守時が就任し、これが最後の北条氏執権となる。