Yoritomo's expectation on the giso was so high that he wrote in a letter to Giso kugyo dated on April 30, 1186 that 'I especially state that politics of the whole country should be clarified with giso by kugyo', 'even if an imperial order is issued, it should be opposed again and again for the Imperial Court and the world in case of causing disturbances' (the same item of "Azuma Kagami").
頼朝の議奏に対する期待は大きく、翌文治2年（1186年）4月30日付の議奏公卿に宛てた書状には「天下の政道は群卿の議奏によって澄清せらるべきの由、殊に計ひ言上せしむるところなり」「たとひ勅宣・院宣を下さるる事候といへども、朝のため世のため、違乱の端に及ぶべきの事は、再三覆奏せしめたまふべく候なり」と記されている（『吾妻鏡』同日条）。