Masataka UWAYOKOTE regards this decree as the Togoku government merger treaty by the Imperial Court (the Kuge Government) because the Imperial Court, which had lost Togoku for a while, restored Togoku by this decree, and the Togoku government, which had been building an independent right, was annexed to the Imperial Court and its authority remarkably receded.
上横手雅敬は、一時的に東国を失った朝廷（公家政権）が本宣旨によって東国を回復したのであり、独立した権力を構築しつつあった東国政権は朝廷に併合され、その権力を大きく後退させたとし、本宣旨は朝廷による東国政権併合条約だったとみる。