Kamakura-Genji (the Minamoto clan) which had heard of imprisonment of Cloistered Emperor Gotoba was about to take up arms in the Kanto region, while Yoshinaka and the Matsudono family temporarily ruled the world.
こうして一時的に義仲と松殿家に天下が訪れたが、関東では法皇幽閉を聞きつけた鎌倉源氏がいよいよ挙兵に及ぶ。