When Takauji ASHIKAGA came to know it later, he was moved to tears by Yorisada's loyalty to the Emperor, and is said to have acknowledged the Yorinaka's Shoryo (territory) in Nose and in addition given 17 Go (an administrative area larger than a village) to Yorinaka.
足利尊氏は後にそのことを聞き頼貞の勤王心に感涙し頼仲に能勢の所領を安堵するとともに備前17郷を与えたという。