The incident had taken place just after his father's death, so Takauji at first had refused his help to the shogunate, but the Kamakura shogunate took his wife and children as hostages to make Takauji follow its order.
このとき、父・貞氏が没した直後であり高氏は派兵を辞退するが、幕府は妻子を人質として重ねて派兵を命じた。