In "Gikeiki" (a military epic about the life of Yoshitsune), he warded off the assassin Shoshin TOSANOBO, who had received an imperial order to attack Yoshitsune, and beheaded him at Rokujo Kawara riverbank..
『義経記』では義経追討の院宣を受けて現れた刺客土佐坊昌俊を撃退後、六条河原にて斬首している。