However, various arguments about, among other things, the policy for selecting waka between Tameyo and Tamekane became heated, and an enraged Tameyo resigned as compiler, on top of which followed the deaths of Takahiro KUJO in 1298 and Masaari ASUKAI in 1301.
が、選歌方針ほかを巡り為世・為兼両者の争論が白熱化し、激昂した為世が撰者を辞退、さらに同6年（1298年）には九条隆博、正安3年（1301年）には飛鳥井雅有が死没。