Yoritomo was so concerned with this trouble regarding the territories that he himself took command and distributed the land to his vassals before he assumed the position of the seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians"), that the Tomotsuna family were forgiven before long is perhaps due to his approach.
頼朝は征夷大将軍に就任する以前に自身が采配して配下に与えた土地を巡ってのこの騒動をたいへん憂慮し、その働きかけによってかすぐに許される。