After Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA and Motouji ASHIKAGA died one after the other in 1368, Yoshimune NITTA and Yoshiharu WAKIYA once again raised their armies around the border of Kozuke and Echigo Provinces, but was defeated at Kozuke Numata no sho (manor); Yoshimune was dead in battle and Yoshiharu ran away to Dewa Province.
正平23年（1368年）に足利義詮、足利基氏が相次いで没すると、新田義宗と脇屋義治は再度上野、越後国境周辺で挙兵するが、上野沼田荘で敗れ、義宗は戦死し、義治は出羽国に逃走した。