During the late Kamakura period, Tokichika MORI assumed the position of hyojoshu (a member of Council of State) for the Rokuhara Tandai (an administrative and judicial agency in Rokuhara, Kyoto); however, displeased with the matrimonially related Enki NAGASAKI, the Naikanrei (head of Tokuso Family), holding power in the bakufu instead of the regent Takatoki HOJO, Tokichika lived in seclusion in goryosho (the imperial or shogunate's estate) in the Kawachi Province.
鎌倉時代後期には毛利時親が京都の六波羅探題の評定衆を勤めるが、姻戚関係であった内管領の長崎円喜が執権北条高時に代わり幕府で政権を握っているのを嫌い、料所の河内国へ隠棲する。