However, after MINAMOTO no Noriyori's troops had broken through his line, he resolutely attacked the enemy's camp with his cousin Tsunetoshi and his brother-in-law Kiyosada, three horsemen in all, and was killed in battle.
しかし源範頼軍に陣を突破されると、覚悟を決め、従兄弟の経俊、義弟の清貞とともに三騎で敵陣に突入し、討ち取られた。