Because Kagefusa was the son of a concubine, he was always given the humbler seat than his brother Norikage ASAKURA (posthumous Buddhist name was Isen-sosho, the fifth son of Takakage) who was the son of Takakage's legal wife (Keishitsu Eisho), although he was older than Norikage.
庶腹の出であったため、兄でありながら常に正妻（桂室永昌）の子である弟の朝倉教景(以千宗勝)（孝景五男、法名以千宗勝）の下座に置かれた。