In 1214, backed up by the remnants (of a defeated party) of the Wada clan when he stayed in Kyoto, he tried to attack the Rokuhara government, however, the plot was discovered by the bakufu side and on January 21, 1215, when he was attacked by them in an inn around north of Ichijo, he committed suicide.
建保2年（1214年）、京都滞在時に和田氏の残党に擁立されて六波羅を襲撃しようとしたが計画が幕府方に露見し、同年12月13日、一条北辺の旅亭で幕府方の襲撃を受けて自殺した。