After over 20 years, with exhortations by Settsu-Genji MINAMOTO no Yorimasa, who obeyed Prince Mochihito's order and MINAMOTO no Yukiie, a Kawachi-Genji branch who had been hiding in Kumano, MINAMOTO no Yoritomo, MINAMOTO no Mareyoshi, MINAMOTO no Noriyori, MINAMOTO no Gien, and MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune (the sons of Kawachi-Genji MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo); MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka (Jiro Yoshinaka KISO), the son of MINAMOTO no Yoshikata (a brother of MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo) and a cousin of Yoritomo; Nobuyoshi TAKEDA from Kai-Genji (Minamoto clan) Takeda clan, a descendant of MINAMOTO no Yoshimitsu (Shinra-Saburo Yoshimitsu) (a brother of Yoshiie HACHIMAN TARO); and so on raised armies across the country to begin the Jisho-Juei War, the so-called Genpei War.
20年余の時を経て、以仁王の令旨を奉じた摂津源氏の源頼政、熊野に潜んでいた河内源氏庶流の源行家らの檄を受け、河内源氏の源義朝の子である源頼朝、源希義、源範頼、源義円、源義経ら兄弟や、源義朝の弟の源義賢の子であり、頼朝の従兄弟にあたる源義仲（木曾次郎義仲）、八幡太郎義家の弟の源義光（新羅三郎義光）の子孫の甲斐源氏武田氏の武田信義らが各地で挙兵し、俗に源平合戦と呼ばれる治承・寿永の乱が発生する。