Bakufu sent Takaie NAGOE of Hojo family and his head gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) Takauji ASHIKAGA of Shimotsuke Province to Kyoto, to suppress forces of overthrowing the Shogunate in Saigoku (western part of Japan, especially Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki).
幕府は西国の倒幕勢力を鎮圧するため、北条一族の名越高家と御家人の筆頭である下野国の御家人足利尊氏を京都へ派遣する。