This news shocked the people as an unprecedented event in the court noble society, because the head of one of Sekkan-ke (the families which produced the Regent and the Chief Adviser to the Emperor; line of regents and advisers), which had gripped the absolute power in the Imperial Court for many years, was sent as Imperial envoys to call up SANJO, descended from the Seiga family (ranked second in the court noble families), which had no political influence until then.
これは長年朝廷の全権を握っていた摂関家が勅使となり、政治的に非力であった清華家出身の三条を出仕させるという公家社会始まって以来の出来事として衝撃を与えた。