Although there exist quite a lot of oral traditions saying that members of the Taira family escaped to the place concerned, the notion of Heike no Ochudo stands for "people who sided with the Taira family and thereafter escaped to a certain place."
確かに平家の一門が落ち延びたという伝承も少なくはないが、平家の落人という概念が形容するものは「平家方に与して落ち延びた人」である。