Furthermore, he issued a written order to Sukenaga JO, who was in Echigo no kuni (Echigo Province), and FUJIWARA no Hidehira, who was a chinju-fu shogun (a general at a naval station), to hunt down and kill MINAMOTO no Yoritomo and MINAMOTO no Nobuyoshi.
さらに越後国の城資永、鎮守府将軍・藤原秀衡に源頼朝・源信義追討の宣旨を与えている。