Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, who was a successor to Nobunaga and dominated Japan, took the imperial proclamation to become kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor) as a yushi (an old Japanese adoption system) of Sakihisa KONOE and assumed the reins of government (the Toyotomi government).
信長の後を継いで天下を統一した豊臣秀吉は、公家である近衛前久の猶子として関白宣下を受け、政権（豊臣政権）を成立させた。