However, a lot of people rumored as 'Each brother, Yorimichi and Norimichi, has made their own daughter a consort and, if a boy is born, the Crown Prince will be changed' and they looked at the Imperial Prince Takahito and his togu daibu, Yoshinobu coolly and no candidate for the position of consort to the Imperial Prince could be decided even after the Imperial Prince came of age.
だが、世間では「後冷泉天皇には頼通・教通兄弟がそれぞれ自分の娘を后にしており、男子が生まれれば皇太子は変更されるだろう」と噂され、尊仁親王やその春宮大夫となった能信への眼は冷たいものがあり、親王が成人しても后の候補者が決まらなかった。