With growing social unrest, such as poor harvest (unseasonable weather from the previous year), epidemic (mikka-yami (three-day disease)), and replacement of the shogun (from Yoshimochi ASHIKAGA to Yoshinori ASHIKAGA), bashaku (shipping agents who used horses) in Sakamoto of Omi Province and Otsu demanded debt cancellation.
凶作（前年からの天候不順）、流行病（三日病）、将軍の代替わり（足利義持から足利義教へ）などの社会不安が高まる中、近江国坂本や大津の馬借が徳政を求める。