When TAIRA no Tadatsune rose in the Revolt in the Kanto Provinces, the Imperial Court issued an Imperial order to TAIRA no Naokata, who was a military aristocracy staying in Kyoto, but had his homebase in Kanto region, to go on an expedition to conquest TAIRA no Tadatsune.
東国で平忠常が叛乱を起こすと、朝廷は在京の軍事貴族であり、関東に本拠を持つ平直方に平忠常征伐の勅命を下した。