The Cloistered Emperor Shirakawa yielded to the petition, and thus the petition was expected to stop; however, monks for the Enryaku-ji Temple took retaliatory action on May 23 because monks for the Kofuku-ji Temple beat the jinin (associates of Shinto shrines) of the Gion-sha Shrine when visiting the capital.
法皇は譲歩し一旦は終結するかに思われたが、興福寺大衆が上洛の折に祇園社神人に暴行を働いたたため、29日に延暦寺大衆が報復する。