"While Kuro led brave warriors such as Juro Yoshitsura MIURA (Yoshitsura SAHARA) and engaged in an offensive and defensive battle at Hiyodorigoe (this mountain had a steep precipice and only a wild boar, a deer, a rabbit, and a fox could pass through the mountain), the Taira clan lost concentration of their consideration about their strategy and retreated, some of whom attempted to get out of Ichinotani-jo Castle by horse, and some attempted to escape into the Shikoku region by ship."
「九郎が三浦十郎義連（佐原義連）ら勇士を率いて、鵯越（この山は猪、鹿、兎、狐の外は通れぬ険阻である）において攻防の間に、（平氏は）商量を失い敗走、或いは一ノ谷の舘を馬で出ようと策し、或いは船で四国の地へ向かおうとした。」