After Yoritomo strayed, father Yoshitomo was murdered by Tadamune OSADA in Owari Province, the eldest brother Yoshihira, who was hiding in the capital, he was captured and executed, and the second elder brother Tomonaga died from an injury during the run.
なお頼朝がはぐれて後、父義朝は尾張国にて長田忠致に謀殺され、長兄義平は都に潜伏していたところ捕らえられて処刑され、次兄朝長は逃亡中の負傷が元で命を落としている。