However Ike no zenni, stepmother of Kiyomori, asked Kiyomori for clemency as she saw a resemblance between Yoritomo and her child TAIRA no Iemori who died young.
しかし、清盛の継母・池禅尼は、早世した我が子・平家盛に頼朝が似ている事から清盛に助命を請うた。