There is an anecdote that Tsugunobu's wife and Tadanobu's wife wore their husbands' armors respectively disguised as their bravery in order to show and console their old mother (Otowa Gozen) who moaned at losing her two sons, and this anecdote was published in the government-designated textbook as an educational material for girls and women until the early Showa period. 
継信・忠信兄弟の妻たちは、息子2人を失い嘆き悲しむ老母（乙和御前）を慰めんとそれぞれの夫の甲冑を身にまとい、その雄姿を装って見せたという逸話があり、婦女子教育の教材として昭和初期までの国定教科書に掲載された。