Sent to the Taira army's headquarters in Yashima, Sanuki Province with TAIRA no Shigekuni as the envoy from the Taira family, Shigehira, who held as a captive and not allowed to write a letter, asked the following verbal message for his wife then moved to tears ("Heike Monogatari").
平重国が使者となって讃岐国屋島の平家の本営へ向かうことになり、重衡は罪人の身で書状は書けないので口頭で下記のように妻への伝言を頼み重国は涙ぐんだ（『平家物語』）。