Because of Masayoshi's rash and blind act, fall of the Nitta clan became clear and the head family of the Nitta family fell into straitened circumstances to become a local gokenin (an immediate vassal of the shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) who was not even in "Azuma Kagami" (The Mirror of the East).
政義の軽挙妄動により、新田氏の没落は決定的となり、新田本宗家は『吾妻鏡』にも登場しないような一地方御家人に零落した。