But even before this incident, the Kikkawa clan had issued notification to villages in that area for all defeated warriors to be rounded up, so in history books Nagata is described as having acted as he did out of hunger for rewards.
この付近の村々には事前に吉川氏より落人を召し出すようにとの通達があり、史書によれば褒賞欲しさで行ったと言われている。