As the plan was exposed to the Taira clan, the insurgent group had to raise an army without sufficient preparations; Yorimasa was hunted by the Taira clan and killed himself in the war of Uji Byodoin Temple.
計画が露見して準備不足のまま挙兵を余儀なくされ、平家の追討を受けて宇治平等院の戦いで敗れ自害した。