In the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), under the supervision of the third Shogun Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA, a shogunal deputy (kanrei), Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA answered Emperor Gokogon's, and the following year, 1371 (March 23), the Emperor passed the throne to Prince Ohito and started a cloistered government.
幕府では3代将軍足利義満のもと、管領の細川頼之が後光厳の意思を尊重するべきであると回答し、翌1371年（応安4年3月23日）に、緒仁へ譲位して院政を敷く。