Kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor) FUJIWARA no Moromichi dispatched MINAMOTO no Yoriharu, as well as Yoshitsuna, to repel the enemy, but on this occasion arrows hit the portable shrine and Shinto priests and it is said that the early death of Moromichi some years later was Buddha's punishment for this action.
関白藤原師通は、義綱のほか、源頼治を派遣してこれを撃退したが、その際、矢が神輿や神人に当たり、それが仏罰となって、数年後の師通の若死にをもたらしたとも言われている。