For this reason, while Fuyusuke was fighting against the Southern Court's power together with the Otomo clan and the Shimazu clan, he was making a request to the bakufu to send him Kyushu Tandai (a local commissioner for Kyushu).
このため冬尚は大友氏や島津氏と協力して南朝勢力と戦う一方で、幕府から新たな九州探題を派遣してくれるように要請していた。