Moreover, according to another view, the major factor of the incident was that Kugyo himself was so ambitious that he drove at the position of the shogun as Sanetomo's successor, rather than those backgrounds.
またそれらの背後関係よりも、公暁個人が野心家で実朝の跡目としての将軍就任を狙ったところに、この事件の最も大きな要因を求める見解もある。