Soon after Tsunayoshi was inaugurated as shogun, he summoned the parties involved in the Echizen Matsudaira family feud, Mimasaka OGURI and Okura NAGAMI, and although the dispute had already been settled during the rule of the fourth shogun, Ietsuna, and Tsunayoshi reversed Ietsuna's verdict.
将軍職に就いて、まだ日も浅い頃、4代将軍家綱の治世に決着がついていた越前松平家のお家騒動について、当事者の小栗美作と永見大蔵を呼び寄せた上で綱吉自身が家綱の決定を覆す採決をした。