The plan to raise an army was communicated in the form of Prince Mochihito's Imperial order to the priests of the large-scale temples and shrines and the Minamoto clan who had yielded to power in various provinces across Japan to destroy the Taira clan, and 'MINAMOTO no Nakatsuna, the former Director of Izu Province' was listed as the leader of the plan.
挙兵計画は以仁王の名で平家追討の令旨を大寺社や諸国に雌伏する源氏に下し、その蜂起の呼びかけの名義人が「前伊豆守源仲綱」であった。