Yoshihiro OUCHI wished to get Tandai shiki position (a governor of Shogunal deputies), so he asked the Otomo clan and Ryoshun to cooperate with him, but Ryoshun refused this.
後任の探題職を望んでいた大内義弘は大友氏や了俊に対して連合を持ちかけるが、了俊は拒絶。