The Taira clan split their 500 ships into three fleets, and with Hyotoji Hideto YAMAGA as well as Akira MATSUURA as the generals in command, challenged the Minamoto clan to fight.
平家は五百艘を三手に分け山峨兵藤次秀遠および松浦党らを将軍となして源氏に戦いを挑んだ。