This Kikkawa family tradition which values both literary and military arts was transmitted less so through the lineage of Mototsune's eldest son than through Motoharu KIKKAWA (who transcribed "Taiheiki" [The Record of the Great Peace] by hand at the front of battles), who was a distant relative of the Kikkawa clan and a member of the Mori clan, and his descendants.
この文武を重んずる吉川氏の家風は、経基嫡流よりも、傍流で毛利氏一門の吉川元春（陣中にて『太平記』を写本）とその子孫に色濃く受け継がれることとなる。