Partly because his father died young, he tended to be isolated in the clan; he left the front line after the Taira clan fled from Kyoto, and committed a suicide by drowning himself in the sea off Nachi.
父の早世もあって一門の中では孤立気味であり、平氏一門が都を落ちたのちに戦線を離脱、那智の沖で入水自殺した。