Kanezane KUJO criticized this in an entry in Gyokuyo (the name given to his diary) that he made on February 23, 1179, in which he said: "He is willingly trying to extinguish the line of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan".
これについて九条兼実は「平禅門の藤氏を滅亡する、此の人頗る其の事に与る」（『玉葉』治承5年閏2月23日条）と非難している。