Then, Sadamitsu appealed Emperor Godaigo who was just to depart, saying, 'now that you will go back to Kyoto, shedding the all the fealty that our family have rendered you for many years, before you leave you should decapitate Yoshisada and more than 50 members of our family.'
そのため、貞満が出発直前の後醍醐天皇に、「当家累年の忠義を捨てられ、京都に臨幸なさるべきにて候はば、義貞始め一族五十余人の首をはねて、お出であるべし」と奏上。