However, making use of this situation, he came to expand his power in Kai Province, and he became the first generation of the Kai-Genji that had continued from generation to generation since Kiyomitsu.
しかしこれによって、かえって甲斐国に勢力を拡張することとなり、清光以降脈々と続く甲斐源氏の始祖となった。