Though the scale of this transfer of the bakufu was small, it was a transfer of the capital in fact and was therefore a symbolic event that facilitated the change of people's minds over the period of shogun autocracy, ultimately giving rise to council-based regent politics.
この幕府移転は規模こそ小さいもののいわば遷都であり、将軍独裁時代からの心機一転を図り、合議的な執権政治を発足させる象徴的な出来事であった。