Ironically, the revival of tally trade and the rebuilding plan of financial circumstances by the Shogunate's officials, who were his aides, and Shugo daimyo who robbed the administrative power from Yoshimasa, were successful and therefore the Shogunate's financial situation was very stable during the first half of Yoshimasa's rule, just as it had been during Yoshimitsu's era.
皮肉にも勘合貿易の復活や義政から実権を奪った守護大名や側近の幕府官僚の財政再建策が功を奏して、義政の治世前半は義満の時代と並んで幕府財政は安定期であったとされている。