Yoritomo changed personnel of Imperial Court to Kamakura's favor by making kugyo of the pro-bakufu group, such as Kanezane KUJO, to giso (a position conveying what the congress decides to the Emperor) and requesting Kanezane to be nairan (a preliminary inspection of official documents submitted from the Great Council of State to the Emperor, the essential part of Sessho Kanpaku (regent and chief adviser to the Emperor) duty).
九条兼実ら親幕府派の公卿を議奏とし、兼実を内覧（摂政・関白の職務の中の実質的な部分）に任命する申請を行い、朝廷の人事を鎌倉色に塗り替えさせる。