When Empress Shotoku passed away in August in the same year, Makibi backed up FUNYA no Kiyomi, and successively backed up his younger brother, FUNYA no Ochi as a successor, but he failed and fell from power.
同年8月に称徳天皇が没すると、真備は後継者として文室浄三を、次いでその弟の文室大市を推したが失敗し、失脚した。