Imperial Court and people in Kyoto desired MINAMOTO no Yoritomo go up to Kyoto, therefore the Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa sent Yoshinaka to search for and kill the Taira clan in Saigoku (western part of Japan - especially Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki), instead demanded Yoritomo go to Kyoto.
朝廷と京の人々は頼朝の上洛を望み、後白河法皇は義仲を西国の平氏追討に向かわせ、代わって頼朝に上洛を要請する。