Morokazu NAKAHARA served as an aide to the shogun FUJIWARA no Yoritsune, functioning as an intermediary for Kyoto and Kamakura, for Councilors of the Council of State and the Administrative Board, and as the reward magistrate, functioning as an intermediary for the shogunal regent and the shogun--Here, it is proved that he was originally expected to keep neutral between the shogunal regent and the shogun.
中原師員は将軍藤原頼経の側近でもあったが、その立場は、京と鎌倉、評定衆の評定と政所、恩沢奉行としては執権と将軍の結節点となっており、執権対将軍という中では中立的な立場がそもそもの役割だったのだろう。