As a result, the two clans fought for roughly nine years, with some truces, over the course of a total of twelve years from 1051 to 1063.
Minamoto no Yoriyoshi and his son Yoshiie came to the Abes' northern province of Mutsu to restore power over the province to the Governor; Abe no Yoritoki, Sadatō's father, had been acting beyond his station.