During those days, he asserted that it was unfair not to return to the Otomo family the paddy fields covering an area of about 10.9km in the Province of Kaga, which had been formerly owned by the Otomo family but confiscated and incorporated into the Kangakuden, state paddy fields to produce food for bureaucrat trainees, following the murder case of FUJIWARA no Tanetsugu; although OTOMO no Yakamochi was acquitted, and had the paddy fields forcibly returned to the Otomo family according to IkenJunikajo (lit. Twelve Opinions) by Kiyoyuki MIYOSHI.
また、この頃（承和_(日本)年間）藤原種継暗殺事件によって没収されて大学寮勧学田に編入された加賀国にあるかつての大伴家持所有の100町余りの水田を家持は無罪として赦免されているのに返還されないのは不当として強引に返還させたという（三善清行『意見十二箇条』）。