However, Fusasada UESUGI, who had succeeded to a governor of Echigo Province from Kiyokata, and warlords of the Kanto region plotted to put up Eijuoumaru (Shigeuji ASHIKAGA), a bereaved child of Mochiuji ASHIKAGA, as a new Kamakura Kubo, and the Muromachi shogunate approved it.
ところが、足利持氏の遺児・永寿王丸（足利成氏）を新しい鎌倉公方に擁立する動きが清方の後を継いだ越後守護・上杉房定や関東諸将の間で起き、室町幕府もこれを容認した。