"Zenchu-ki" in the military epic, "Genpei Seisuiki" (The Rise and Decline of the Minamoto and Taira clans), has a different story; instead of committing suicide, after his pilgrimage to Kumano, Koremori went to Kyoto to plead with the Cloistered Emperor for his life, and the Cloistered Emperor communicated Koremori's wish to Yoritomo, who wanted Koremori to come to Kanto (the east of Japan) but he died of disease on the way to Kamakura in Yu-shimojuku in Sagami Province.
『源平盛衰記』に記された『禅中記』の異説によれば、維盛は入水ではなく、熊野に参詣したのち都に上って法皇に助命を乞い、法皇が頼朝に伝えたところ、頼朝が維盛の関東下向を望んだので、鎌倉へ下向する途中に相模国の湯下宿で病没したという。