At first, owing to the cold treatment by the Kamakura bakufu, the authority of the head family of the Nitta clan at the Kenmu Restoration was regarded as lower than that of the same family, the soryo family of the Ashikaga clan.
当初、鎌倉幕府の冷遇によって建武の新政での新田氏本宗家の権威は同族である足利氏惣領よりも格下に見られていた。