Renjun based in Kinai region unlike others of his brothers who had their footholds in Hokuriku region and he was a younger maternal half-brother of Jitsunyo, so Renjun naturally became Jitsunyo's adviser and accepted Ennyo, who had been intended to be Jitsunyo's successor, as a son-in-law married to his daughter.
北陸地方に拠点があった他の兄弟と違って畿内を拠点にしていたこと、実如の同母弟であったことから自然と実如の相談役となり、その後継者として予定されていた円如を娘婿とした。