It was recorded that, the following year, KIYOHARA no Takenori expressed a wish to the Imperial Court to be reassigned to the Ecchu no kuni no kami (Governor of Ecchu Province), possibly due to his experiences in the Earlier Nine Years' War and his apparent mismanagement of his assigned province.
清原武則には前九年の役で頭を下げた経緯もあり受領としての任国経営が思うに任せなかったのか、『朝野群載』には、翌年朝廷に越中国守への転任を希望したことが記されている。