Yorimasa, having realized that this was the end, recited the Nenbutsu (a Buddhist prayer to Amida) and then disemboweled himself, with Tono WATANABE serving as his kaishaku (he who assists by delivering the coup de grace).
頼政はもはやこれまでと念仏をとなえ、渡辺唱の介錯で腹を切った。