Nakatsuna fought hard inside Byodo-in Temple to let Prince Mochihito escape, and after fighting and being wounded, he killed himself in the Tsuridono fishing pavilion of Byodo-in Temple.
仲綱らは以仁王を逃すべく平等院に籠って必死で戦い、仲綱はさんざんに戦い満身創痍になって平等院釣殿で自害した。