Kanezane KUJO, Udaijin (Minister of the Right) referred to Hidehira as 'Iteki ((barbarian) of Oshu' and deplored the appointment as 'the root of troubled times.'
右大臣九条兼実は秀衡を「奥州の夷狄」と呼び、その就任を「乱世の基」と嘆いている。