On the other hand, he called back FUJIWARA no Kusuko to the Imperial Palace and ordered her to become Naishi no Tsukasa, and she was entrusted with the handling of day-to-day things in the palace; additionally, the Emperor restored an article of the incident FUJIWARA no Tanetsugu being killed from "Shoku Nihon GI (Continuation of Chronicles of Japan)."
その一方で藤原薬子を呼び戻して内侍司に任じて宮廷内部の事を一任し、『続日本紀』から削除した藤原種継暗殺事件の記述を復活させた。