Thomas Conlan (1999), 'The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth-Century Japan: The Record of Nomoto Tomoyuki', Journal of Japanese Studies, 25, pp. 299-330.

The need to mobilize and wield military force became both a means of stabilizing authority and an end unto itself. After the downfall of Harutoki, no one knew who would ultimately prove to be the most successful in

amassing and sustaining these powers of coercion. Sometime in the spring of 1333, state and society were unleashed from their old moorings and cast adrift in a sea of uncertainties. Ultimately, only the relentless logic of war remained: the sole unsettling certainty in an age of profound contention.