According to "Jokyuki" (A Chronicle of the Jokyu War), he parried the first stroke with the mace, but was cut by the next stroke, and at the last moment he said, 'Hiromoto was right,' and died.
承久記によると、一の太刀は笏に合わせたが、次の太刀で切られ、最期は「広元やある」と述べ落命したという。