Additionally, his trip to the Mutsu Province to ask for a financial contribution to the reconstruction of Todai-ji Temple to the Oshu-Fujiwara clan in later life is well known and his meeting with MINAMOTO no Yoritomo along the way in Kamakura is documented in "Azuma Kagami" (The Mirror of the East).
また特に晩年東大寺再建の勧進を奥州藤原氏に行うために陸奥に下った旅は有名で、この途次に鎌倉で源頼朝に面会したことが『吾妻鏡』に記されている。