Tomomasa, returning back, missed him in spite of leading troops into Kiyomizu-zaka Slope, where Nagamochi was said to hide, and Nagamochi was killed in Yoshino with his head exposed in the end.
戻った朝政は長茂が在るという清水坂に向うが行方は知れず、長茂は後に吉野で討たれ首を晒された。