Yoriyuki's administration was bogged down due to power struggles with factions such as the Shiba clan and the Yamana clan, the interference of Yoshiakira's wife Koshi SHIBUKAWA and the temple factions, and the resistance of the Southern Court, and, to add to his problems, there there was no end in sight to the campaign to subdue Kyushu led by Sadayo IMAGAWA.
頼之の施政は、政敵である斯波氏や山名氏との派閥抗争、義詮正室の渋川幸子や寺院勢力介入、南朝の反抗などで難航し、また今川貞世の九州制圧も長期化していた。