Studying and understanding the situation between 'Asakura blood relations of the family (Kageakira ASAKURA as the head) and retainers' and 'the head of a head family who has been adopted out from the Rokkaku clan' has been expected based on stories such as the massive estrangement of Fudai kashin dan (a group of hereditary vassals), sudden decrease of leading ability/centripetal force of the Asakura family head, and conflicts between Kageakira and Yoshikage ASAKURA.
譜代家臣団の大量離反や、朝倉当主の急激な指導力・求心力低下、朝倉景鏡と義景の軋轢などが「朝倉氏の血脈である一門（筆頭・朝倉景鏡）、家来衆」と「六角氏からの養子である本家当主」という構図が解りやすく研究解明が待たれる説である。