And he requested that TAIRA no Kiyomori give him, as the reward, the Osuke-shiki (governorship) of the sixteen counties of Kozuke Province and the Nitta no sho (manor), gaining both of which had been a long-cherished ambition of this family since his father, Toshitsuna.
そのため、恩賞として父・俊綱以来の宿願である上野国十六郡の大介職と新田荘を平清盛に請求した。