Some may have thought that Motohiro was favored by the Edo bakufu, but the reality was totally the opposite, since Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA, the Seii taishogun (great general who subdues the barbarians) at that time was facing his successor problem with Tsunatoyo TOKUGAWA (who later became the Sixth Shogun Ienobu TOKUGAWA) of the Kofu clan, whose legal wife was Hiroko KONOE (who later became Teneiin), the eldest daughter of Motohiro.
しかもその一方で、江戸幕府の方から好かれていたのかと言えば全くの逆で、時の征夷大将軍徳川綱吉は、自分の後継問題で緊張関係にあった甲府藩徳川綱豊（後の6代将軍徳川家宣）の正室・近衛熈子（後の天英院）が基熙の長女であった。