However, the political situation in Totomi Province was complicated and recent studies have shown that these clans were in fact under the command of Yoshinaga SHIBA of the eastern army, which means that Yoshitada was fighting the eastern, not the western, army.
しかし、遠江国の政情は複雑で、近年の研究ではこれらの国人は東軍の斯波義良に属するものだと考察されており、義忠は同じ東軍と戦っていたことになってしまう。