It is also said that the picture scroll was drawn in order to pray for the repose of the souls of Yasumori ADACHI and Kagesuke SHONI who had helped Suenaga to receive rewards but were killed in the Shimotsuki Incident (a coup to destroy Gokenin [immediate vassals of the shogunate] by Miuchibito [private vassals of the tokuso]) in 1285.
このとき季長に恩賞の便宜を取り計らった安達泰盛や少弐景資らは、弘安8年（1285年）の霜月騒動で滅びており、恩義のある彼らへの鎮魂の意味があるとも指摘されている。