The sixteenth head of the Konoe family, Sakihisa KONOE (the pseudonym Ozan, 1536 - 1612), who served as Kanpaku over the periods of the demise of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), Honnoji Incident (a battle in which Nobunaga was killed), and the foundation of Tokugawa Shogunate, led a turbulent life serving as Kanpaku to move to Echigo (the Niigata region) to make an alliance with Kenshin UESUGI, also took a good care of the family treasure of documents and evacuated them to Sakamoto at the foot of Mt. Hiei.
16代当主近衛前久（さきひさ、号は応山、1536年–1612年）は、室町幕府の崩壊、本能寺の変、徳川幕府成立という激動の時代に関白を務め、関白の職にありながら、上杉謙信と同盟を結んで越後に赴くなど数奇な生涯を送った人物であるが、彼も家伝文書の保存には意を払い、文書を比叡山の麓の坂本に疎開させたという。