 In addition, Mitsunaka inherited his father's title of "Chinjufu-shōgun", Commander-in-chief of the Defense of the North.The patron/client relationship between the Fujiwara and the Seiwa Genji continued for nearly two hundred years after Mitsunaka's death; indeed, the Seiwa Genji came to be known as the "teeth and claws" of the Fujiwara.Mitsunaka married the daughter of Minamoto no Suguru, from the Saga Genji branch of the Minamoto.