At that time, pregnant chugu Teishi had moved into her private residence called Nijo-Kitamiya (or Nijo no miya) at the beginning of the previous month, and Korechika was staying at the western annex to her residence, where Emon no suke (Assistant Captain of Outer Palace Guards) KOREMUNE no Masasuke (or Tadasuke) delivered the senmyo into Hairu (exile) to Korechika; Korechika refused to leave, under the pretext of being seriously ill.
折りしも懐妊中の中宮定子は先月始めから里第二条北宮に退出しており、衛門佐・惟宗允亮は御在所の西の対に在る伊周に配流の宣命を伝えたが、伊周は重病を称し、出立を拒んだ。