According to the "Heike Monogatari," Tokitada ventured into Enryaku-ji Temple and negotiated a settlement to the situation, and he delivered to the excited daishu a paper on which he wrote 'violence by priests is conduct of a devil to disturb Buddhist training; myoo's restraint against such violence is protection by Zenzei (the well-gone; epithet of Buddha),' and he successfully subsided their anger.
『平家物語』によれば、時忠は事態収拾のために延暦寺に乗り込んで交渉に当たり、激昂する大衆に「衆徒の濫悪をいたすは魔縁の所行なり、明王の制止を加ふるは善逝の加護なり」と紙に書いて渡し、その怒りを鎮めたという。