However, Ietoki, Yoshiie's seventh-generation descendant, thought that he could not achieve this, therefore, he prayed to Great Bodhisattava Hachiman to help the third generation descendant of him to conquer the whole country, and killed himself with a ganmon (a written wish) left behind.
義家の七代の子孫にあたる家時は、自分の代では達成できないため、八幡大菩薩に三代後の子孫に天下を取らせよと祈願し、願文を残して自害した。