When a confrontation between Takauji and Tadayoshi in the Kanno Disturbance forced Tadayoshi and many bureaucrats supporting Tadayoshi to break away, many organizations in the Muromachi bakufu stopped functioning, but ironically, only the Onshogata was able to maintain its function because bureaucrats supporting Takauji had occupied the posts in the Onshogata.
皮肉にも観応の擾乱によって尊氏と直義が対立して直義とこれを支持する幕府官僚の多くが離反した時、室町幕府の機構の多くが機能停止に陥ったが、恩賞方のみは尊氏派の官僚がそのまま残留したためにこれを免れたのである。