Having been informed of this in a report from Noriie, Teika took a stance that Mitsuie, who lost a person to serve due to extinction of the Kujo family of the Hachijo line, had no choice but to seclude himself from the world, as he described in "Meigetsuki" (Chronicle of the Bright Moon) that 'this seclusion from the world must have been most reasonable.'
このことを教家からの報告で知った定家は『明月記』に「此遁世尤可謂穏便」と記して八条系九条家の消滅によって行くあてを失った光家には遁世しか選択の余地は無いとする態度を示している。