Further, as shown above, taking into consideration that Tomo is the place where Takauji ASHIKAGA received the decree which lead to the establishment of the Muromachi bakufu, Sanyo Rai as a historian in the end of Edo period thus remarked: "Ashikaga (Muromachi bakufu) came to power in Tomo and got overthrown in Tomo."
また、前述のように足利尊氏が室町幕府成立のきっかけとなる院宣を受け取った場所でもあるため幕末の歴史家頼山陽は“足利（室町幕府）は鞆で興り鞆で滅びた”と喩えた。