Takakura reluctantly issued an order to construct the imperial palace, and Tokitada seems to have been assigned a role to suppress opinion groups who were against the transfer of the capital and took such forcible action as to suppress differing views when the problem of the directional taboo was raised in a meeting (Article for September 27 in "Gyokuyo").
高倉はやむを得ず内裏造営命令を出し、時忠も遷都反対派を抑える役割を任されたらしく、議定で方角の禁忌が問題になると反対意見を封殺するなど、強引な手法をとっている（『玉葉』8月29日条）。