Also connected with the Ashikaga family, Muso worked as a mediator in the Kanno Disturbance, an internal conflict within the Ashikaga family, causing Court nobles and samurai warriors of the Northern Court to become his believers.
夢窓は足利家とも縁があり、足利家の内紛である観応の擾乱では調停も行い、北朝方の公家や武士が帰依する。