One anecdote holds that when Yoshimitsu went to help his older brother Yoshiie in the Gosannen no Eki, he played the Sho (a type of flute) on the Ashigara-toge Pass in Sagami province, and taught TOYOHARA no Tokiaki, the orphaned son of Tokimoto, everything he had learned from Tokimoto as a parting gift.
後三年の役で兄義家の救援に赴く際、相模国足柄峠で笙を吹き、時元の遺子である豊原時秋に学びし所を尽く授けて訣別したという逸話がある。