"Gyokuyo" (Diary of Kanezane KUJO) states 'Yoritomo's body held solemn might, whose nature is severe, sagacious in administration and discriminable of right and wrong' (the item of October 9 under the old lunar calendar).
九条兼実の日記『玉葉』は「頼朝の体たる、威勢厳粛、その性強烈、成敗文明、理非断決」（10月9日条）と書いている。