Yoritomo escaped to Awa Province with Tokimasa and Yoshitoki and planned another attack, gathering warriors from the eastern provinces to create an army that grew into a force of several tens of thousands, then they sat up a fort in Kamakura, an area connected with the Genji.
頼朝は時政、義時とともに安房国に逃れて再挙し、東国の武士たちは続々と頼朝の元に参じ、数万騎の大軍に膨れ上がり、源氏ゆかりの地である鎌倉に入り居を定めた。