After putting down Shuten Doji (an leader of a group of ogres, also bandits that roamed the region around Kyoto), MINAMOTO no Yorimitsu had a feast at his residence with his four loyal retainers and FUJIWARA no Yasumasa, then Hirai (or one of the four retainers, URABE no Suetake) started to say that there was an ogre at Rajo-mon Gate.
源頼光が酒呑童子を討伐した後、自分の屋敷で頼光四天王と藤原保昌とともに宴を催していたところ、平井（または四天王の1人・卜部季武）が、羅城門に鬼がいると言い出した。