This personnel change was appointment as a successor because of the dismissal of FUJIWARA no Tomokata and FUJWARA no Saneie, who were dissatisfied with the appointment of Kiyomori to daijin (Minister) and did not attend the Sechi-e (seasonal court banquets) of Gosechi (annual court ceremony of girls music), but it was quite unusual that one who had started from hikurodo became the Kurodo no to.
清盛の大臣就任に不満を抱き、五節の節会に欠席した藤原朝方・実家が解官されたことによる後任人事だったが、非蔵人から始まって蔵人頭になったのは極めて異例のことだった。