This confrontation escalated to the point where various rumors circulated that the Izumo group might be trying to settle a deep-seated grudge against the Ise group, which had accumulated since the era of gods, and that Takatomi SENGE, who had been disloyal to the Imperial Family, had to be killed as punishment.
果てには、「出雲派が神代より続く積年の宿怨を晴らさんとしている」「皇室に不逞な心を持っている千家尊福を誅殺すべし」など、様々な風説が飛び交った。