Those who criticize this theory insist that it is not understandable why the Emperor's family had to think that it needed to give facilitations to the Fujiwara clan to the degree that the Emperor's family entrusted its own succession to the hand of the Fujiwara clan.
この説への批判者は、天皇家が自家の継承まで委ねるほど藤原氏に奉仕しなければならないと考えた動機が不明だとする。