Some people regard that the savagery of the Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa reflected the savagery of the pictures which described this story in detail, for example, Chito had a tong pull out and hung on a tree, and stepped on the head of his master KIYOHARA no Takehira at the end of his physical life.
この話を詳細に書き記し、舌を引き抜く処、その後千任が木に吊され、力尽きて主人清原武衡の生首を踏んでしまうところを絵に描いた嗜虐性を、後白河法皇の嗜虐性と見る見方もある。