Yoritomo was informed of the plot by Sukekiyo who had been married to the third daughter of Hikinoama, Yoritomo's wet nurse, and then, he escaped on a horse at night to Soto-gongen shrine in Atami and was hidden in the residence of Tokimasa HOJO safely.
頼朝の乳母・比企尼の三女を妻としていた子の祐清が頼朝に知らせ、頼朝は夜間馬に乗って熱海の走湯權現に逃げ込み、北条時政の館に匿われて事なきを得たという。