The power of the Shogun, as well as the Shiba and Hatakeyama families, declined steadily after the Onin War, with only the Hosokawa clan expanding its power; before long Katsumoto HOSOKAWA's son, Masamoto HOSOKAWA, established heredity of the Kanrei post for the Hosokawa clan, and eventually, in the Meio Coup, overthrowing the Shogun and siezing all of the Shogunate's authority (establishment of the Hosokawa Keicho administration).
応仁の乱後は将軍権力及び斯波・畠山両家は衰退する一方で細川氏のみが権力を広げていき、やがて細川勝元の子・細川政元が細川氏による管領職の世襲化を確立、やがて明応の政変で将軍が廃立するなど幕府権力の全てを掌握した（細川京兆家政権の成立）。