After gaining Yoshinaka's trust by submitting his daughter, FUJIWARA no Ishi, as his concubine, he succeeded in appointing Moroie, who was then only 12 years old, to the position of Junii (Junior Second Rank), Sessho (Regent), Naidaijin (the minister of interior), and Toshi choja (a head of the Fujiwara Family) in Novenmber of the same year and recovered from Motomichi the initiative inside Sekkan-ke (the families which produced regents).
娘の藤原伊子を義仲の側室として差し出しその信を得ると、同年11月、わずか12歳の師家を従二位・摂政・内大臣・藤氏長者の地位につけることに成功し、基通から摂関家内部における主導権を奪還した。