However, according to the article August 3 of the same year of "Azuma Kagami," on August 3 (old lunar calendar), Yoritomo ordered Yoshitsune to expel TAIRA no Nobukane in Iyo Province, and this fact might suggest that Yoshitsune had been already excluded from the mission of the expedition over the western sea, before Yoshitsune was granted the title from the Imperial court.
しかし、同じく『吾妻鏡』八月三日条によると、8月3日_(旧暦)、頼朝は義経に伊勢国の平信兼追討を指示しているので、任官以前に義経は西海遠征から外れていたとも考えられる。