And when, during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the leading poet of the Reizei school fell under the emperor's censure and was ruined, it was none other than Ieyasu TOKUGAWA who exerted all his power and influence to rehabilitate him.
織豊時代には当主が勅勘をこうむり没落するも、徳川家康の尽力により再興される。