"Azuma Kagami" (The Mirrors of the East) has an article that while he was serving Tameyoshi as a retainer, Kageshige and his colleague Sanemori SAITO had a quarrel with TACHIBANA no Kiminaga, a vassal of the Taira Clan, at Awataguchi, Kyoto, and that they were both scolded by their master Tameyoshi (article dated Dec. 19 of the Jisho period [lunar calendar], which is Jan. 13, 1181 according to the Gregorian calender).
為義の家人時代、京都粟田口で同僚の斎藤実盛と共に平家の家人橘公長と喧嘩をした際、景重らが主君為義に諫められたという話が『吾妻鏡』にみえている（同書治承4年（1180年）12月19日(旧暦)条）。