However, most of the anti-Nakamaro faction of the court nobles cooperated with the Retired Empress just to remove Nakamaro from the political world; they did not mean that they approve of the Empress Koken, who had once entered into priesthood, return to the throne; much less the advancement of Dokyo to the political world.
だが、反仲麻呂派の貴族の大勢はあくまでも仲麻呂の政界からの排除のために上皇に協力しただけであり、一度は出家して尼になった筈の孝謙上皇の復位やましてや道鏡の政界進出に賛同したわけではなかった。