Just after Kanetoki's arrival at Hakata in Kyushu, the Heizenmon War occurred in Kamakura and when the post horse telling the news came to Hakata on June 15, Kanetoki became busy dealing with gokenin in Hakata, who had come from the Kyushu region.
兼時が九州博多に到着した直後に鎌倉では平禅門の乱が起こり、5月3日に事件を報ずる早馬が博多に到着し、九州の御家人達が博多につめかけ、兼時はその対応に追われた。