The brothers did not join the Hogen War, the Heiji War and raising an army by the Minamoto clan, and they lived in Kyoto and spent their lives as bureaucrats.
他の兄弟は保元の乱、平治の乱をはじめ、その後の源氏の挙兵にも一切参加せずに、都にあって官僚の道を歩んだ。