Bakufu asked Saneuji SAIONJI, who was kanto moshitsugi (court-appointed liaison with bakufu), to deliver the letter from the Mongol Empire to the Imperial Court, and led the court to the decision to ignore it.
幕府では関東申次の西園寺実氏に託して蒙古国書を朝廷へ回送し、黙殺を決定させる。