However, after the death of Emperor Yomei, the Mononobe clan was destroyed by a search-and-destroy unit of okimi SOGA no Umako after having conflicts over the matter of accepting Buddhism and succession to the Imperial Throne; since then, the system of omuraji was abolished and Oomi of the Soga clan took the real power of the Imperial Court.
ところが、用明天皇の死後、仏教受容問題及び皇位継承問題で激しく対立した大臣蘇我馬子の追討軍によって守屋は攻め滅ぼされ、これを機に大連制は廃止されて、以後蘇我氏の大臣が宮廷の実権を掌握した。