As scholars have pointed out, his initiatives were linked to those of the retired emperor since, almost at the same time, the Emperor Kameyama (then the retired emperor) made internal reform and implemented the benevolent rule at the court in Kyoto.
ほぼ同時期に京の朝廷でも亀山天皇による朝廷内改革・徳政が行われており、泰盛と上皇の連動性が指摘されている。