Judging from such extremely generous treatment, Michinaga supposedly had schemed to make a further attack on the weakened maternal family of Imperial Prince Atsuyasu immediately before Michinaga's grandson's Investiture of the Crown Prince.
このような異常なまでに寛大な処理に照らすと、孫皇子の立太子目前に、道長が敦康親王の外戚家に追い討ちを企んだことが想定される。