However, this letter, which suggested the Yuki clan were inferior to the Asikaga clan, exasperated Tomomitsu into volcanic rage and he wrote back as 'From Yuki Mandokoro to Asikaga Sama no kami Nyudo.'
しかし、足利氏より格下ととらえられたことに激怒、「結城政所　足利左馬頭入道殿」と記して返書した。