After Yoshitsune's suicide, when Kagetoki and Yoshimori WADA accompanied by their 20 retainers examined his head, the book wrote, 'All the people who saw his head shed tears,' showing the ambivalence of criticism against and attachment for Yoshitsune.
その一方で義経の自害の後、景時と和田義盛ら郎従20騎がその首を検分した時、「観ル者ミナ双涙ヲ拭ヒ、両衫ヲ湿ホス（見る者皆涙を流した）」とあり、義経への批判と哀惜の両面が伺える。