Udaijin Morotada and other court nobles immediately gathered at the palace to close the gates and to hold a meeting, and they sent a letter on the tip off to the Grand Minister of State Saneyori, and ordered the kebiishi (statutory office in the Heian and Kamakura periods) to capture and interrogate TACHIBANA no Shigenobu, and monk Renmo.
右大臣師尹以下の公卿は直ちに参内して諸門を閉じて会議に入り、密告文を関白実頼に送るとともに、検非違使に命じて橘繁延と僧・蓮茂を捕らえて訊問させた。