In "Heike Monogatari" (The Tale of the Heike) he even paints a word picture of an episode involving one of his students, TAIRA no Tadanori, in: 'Tadanori miyako ochi' (Tadanori's Flight from the Capital).
『平家物語』「忠度都落」にも門下のひとり平忠度とのエピソードが描かれる。