Having achieved his long desired objective, Yoshitsune received an imperial envoy dispatched by the Cloistered Emperor to glorify his victory, after which he made a triumphal return to Kyoto on April 24 (old old lunar calendar); it was here that, as the leading figure in the Battle of Dannoura (for which the strategy had been more successful than that of the Battle of Ichinotani and the Battle of Yashima), he embraced the mirror Yata no Kagami and the jewel Yasaka no Magatama (two of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan), which had been recovered from the Taira family.
宿願を果たした義経は法皇から戦勝を讃える勅使を受け、一ノ谷、屋島以上の大功を成した立役者として、平家から取り戻した八咫鏡八尺瓊勾玉を奉じて4月24日_(旧暦)京都に凱旋する。