Regarding the reason he was capable of moving 20,000 soldiers within a few days, historians of posterity point out there was some relation to the fact that in May the Imperial Court had mobilized laborers of Mino and Owari Province on the pretext of construction of Imperial tomb and given them weapons.
わずかな時日で2万の兵力を動かしたことについて、後代の歴史学者は、5月に朝庭（朝廷）が山陵造営のためと称して美濃と尾張の人夫を動員し、武器を渡したこととの関係を指摘する。