 After a period of Reizei ascendancy under Rezei Tamehide (great-grandson of Teika) (b.1302 ?, d. 1372), the Reizei suffered a decline and witnessed the rise in the fortunes of the Nijō, as Tamehide's son, Iametuni, became a monk.The Nijō soon suffered setbacks under the wastrel Nijō Tameshige (b.