However, these are likely to have been descendants of retainers who served the Heike, rather than actual members of the Heike family (according to another theory, the Oda clan was descended from the Fujiwara clan).
しかし、これらは子孫だとしても平家一族の子孫ではなく、平家に仕えた郎党の子孫というべきだろう（織田氏については藤原氏説もあり）。