Yoritomo, who suspected that the cloistered government and the aristocracies were helping Yoshitsune escape, intimidated them in November of the same year saying, 'If the Kyoto side happens to support Yoshitsune, we will send a grand army to defeat you.'
院や貴族が義経を逃がしている事を疑う頼朝は、同年11月に「京都側が義経に味方するならば大軍を送る」と恫喝している。