Although Bifukumon-in had already become a nun, she showed very good strategic abilities in this war; i.e., she summoned even TAIRA no Kiyomori and his brother, whose names were not given in the last words of the Cloistered Emperor Toba because their mother was the nursemaid of Imperial Prince Shigehito, and finally led Emperor Goshirakawa's part to victory.
美福門院はすでに落飾していたが、この乱においては卓抜な戦略的手腕を見せ、重仁親王の乳母子ゆえに鳥羽法皇の遺命では名が挙げられなかった平清盛兄弟をも招致し、後白河天皇方の最終的な勝利へ導いた。