This Nanto Yakiuchi (the Incident of the Taira clan's army setting fire to the temples in Nanto) was criticized as the greatest evil perpetrated by the Taira clan and Shigehira, who carried out the act, was despised by the priests of Nanto.
この南都焼討は平氏の悪行の最たるものと非難され、実行した重衡は南都の衆徒からひどく憎まれた。