But Shigeuji started using bereaved children of warlords who died for Kamakura Kubo during the Eikyo War and Yuki War as his close aides, and it provoked antipathy among UESUGI clan and their vassals.
だが、成氏が永享の乱・結城合戦で鎌倉公方家に殉じた武将の遺児達を側近として登用するようになると、上杉氏やその家臣団の反発も高まっていった。