However, when Kennyo died the following year, it was his third son, Junnyo (an accommodationist) not his eldest son, Kyonyo, a hard-liner who held different opinions from Kennyo regarding Nobunaga at the time of leaving Ishiyama Hongan-ji Temple, who became the twelfth head priest. (The second son was Kenson of Kosho-ji Temple.)
しかし、翌文禄元年（1592年）に顕如が没すると、石山本願寺退去時の信長への対応をめぐって顕如と意見の食い違いがあった長男の教如（強硬派）に代わり、三男の准如（和睦派）が12世門主に立てられることになった（次男は興正寺顕尊）。