Tohira was given the position of Jitoshiki (manager and lord of a private estate) when he received the Nutanosho estate in Aki Province (current Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture), the former territory of the Nuta clan who were the housemen of the Taira clan, as a reward; and the adopted child Kagehira KOBAYAKAWA (whose biological father was believed to be Yoshinobu HIRAGA) moved to the Aki Province.
遠平は平氏討伐の恩賞として平氏家人沼田氏の旧領であった安芸国沼田荘（ぬたのしょう、現在の広島県三原市本郷町付近）の地頭職を拝領し、これを譲られた養子・小早川景平（実父は平賀義信であったとされる。）が、安芸国に移住した。