Yorimichi said that, since the sword belonged to the Crown Prince who had a blood relationship with the Fujiwara clan (which means the Crown Prince who was a maternal relative of the Fujiwara clan), he had no intention to allow Imperial Prince Takahito to have it.
頼通の言い分では、この剣は藤原氏腹（つまり、藤原氏を外戚とする）の東宮のものであるから、尊仁親王に持たせるつもりはないということである。