However, it is hard to understand why Kagetoki, who had seen what had happened to Yoshitsune, would follow in Yoshitsune's footsteps, and so it seems that he simply wanted to work for the court as a Kyoto samurai because he had connections with the political circle in Kyoto through MINAMOTO no Michichika and the Tokudaiji family.
しかし義経の転落を見ていた景時が同じ轍を踏むとは考えられず、源通親や徳大寺家といった京都政界と縁故を持つ景時は、都の武士として朝廷に仕えようとしていたと見られる。