It is supposed that nobles, temples and shrines in power who were intelligentsia and left many records in the period, had conflicts with emerging samurai who opposed them and the Ashikaga clan who protected these samurai.
この時代の知識階層で多く記録を残した貴族・寺社勢力は彼らに反抗する新興武士層や彼らの擁護者である足利氏との対立も有ったと思われる。