There is a legend that one of Yorimasa's retainers I no Hayata brought the head of Yorimasa after his suicide to Yamagata-gun, Mino Province, where Yorimasa's uncle MINAMOTO no Kuninao had his fief, and buried it at Renge-ji Temple, Seki City, Gifu Prefecture.
その他、頼政自害後に郎党の猪早太らが頼政の叔父源国直の領地がある美濃国山県郡に首を持ち運び葬ったとの伝承がある岐阜県関市の蓮華寺がある。