Coupled with the fact that some of the successive shogun members of the Ashikaga shogun family became the chief of the Minamoto clan as well as Junna shogaku ryoin betto (senior bureaucrat for Junna shogaku ryoin school appointed from outside), he reinforced the family characteristics as the direct descendant of the Minamoto clan.
そして、足利将軍家の歴代将軍のうちより、何人かの源氏長者・淳和奨学両院別当を輩出したことと相俟ってより源氏嫡流としての性格を強化した。