Moreover, having obtained quite a number of estates in the west of Japan confiscated from nobles and samurai of the capital faction, Yoshitoki HOJO awarded a great many of them to those gokenin who had distinguished themselves during the war, and consequently strengthened the relationship of trust between the Hojo clan and the gokenin; continuing on from the opening days of the Kamakura bakufu, many such gokenin moved out to the western provinces to oversee their new lands, meaning the shogunate's control even over the kinai region (the five provinces adjacent to Kyoto) was strengthened.
また、西国で京方の公家、武家の多くの没収地を得、これを戦功があった御家人に大量に給付したため、執権北条氏と御家人との信頼関係が強固になり、鎌倉幕府の開府期に続いて多くの御家人が西国に移り住むこととなり、幕府の支配が畿内にも強く及ぶようになる。