For this reason, later, when his descendant Takauji ASHIKAGA conquered Rokuhara Tandai in Kyoto (the office of shogunal deputy in Kyoto placed by the Kamakura shogunate), the Ashikaga family could prevent the warriors of the Kamakura bakufu from going to the capital Kyoto along Tokai-do Road, in Mikawa Province.
後に子孫の足利尊氏が京の六波羅探題を落としたときに関東から鎌倉幕府勢が海道を上洛するのを足利家が三河国で阻止できたのもこの為である。