However, Ike no Zinnia, Kiyomori's mother-in-law, plead for his life, and he was exiled to Hiruga-kojima Island, Izu Province, chigyo-koku (provincial fiefdom) of the family of MINAMOTO no Yorimasa, Settsu-Genji (Minamoto clan).
しかし清盛の継母にあたる池禅尼の助命嘆願で許され、摂津源氏の源頼政一族の知行国でもある伊豆国の蛭ヶ小島へ流された。