However, he was awarded a Kacchu (armor and helmet) only from the Imperial Court, but nothing from the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), and Takefusa is said to have leaned toward the anti-bakufu group.
しかし朝廷から甲冑を賜っただけで鎌倉幕府からの行賞がなく、武房は反幕府へ傾いていたという。