However, Tsunetoki later had a serious illness, and immediately after he gave the shikken no shiki to his brother, Tokiyori, in March, 1246, he died at the young age of 23 in May.
しかし、経時はその後、重病となり寛元4年（1246年）3月、弟・時頼に執権職を譲った直後、閏4月に23歳の若さで死亡する。