To cope with the situation, Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Muromachi bakufu Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA dispatched Tsuneyori TO, the lord of Shinowaki-jo Castle in Gujo-gun, Mino Province, who was a poet and also a member of the Chiba clan, to quell the disturbances.
これに対して、室町幕府の征夷大将軍足利義政は、この乱を治めるため歌人で千葉氏の一族でもある美濃国郡上郡篠脇城主東常縁を派遣している。