Especially around this time, Fushimi was held in suspicion from the bakufu continuing on from his first cloistered government, and there were even rumors that he was thinking of going against the bakufu and he submitted a official document appealing to the bakufu about his innocence in 1316.
特にこのころ、伏見は第1次の院政期から引き続いて幕府から警戒されており、かつての亀山のように倒幕を考えているという噂も立つほどで、正和5年（1316年）には、伏見は幕府に告文を提出して潔白を訴えている。