There are more than 20 such legends in Japan, particularly in the Kyushu and Shikoku regions, including the one in which TAIRA no Morikuni allowed the Emperor to move to a hideout in Nishi-Iya Sanson of Awa Province (currently Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture), or that the Emperor escaped to Io-jima Island in Satsuma Province (currently Mishima-mura Village, Kagoshima Prefecture) guarded by TAIRA no Sukemori, or that the Emperor escaped to Tsushima Island and became an ancestor of the So-uji (the So clan), etc.
平盛国が奉じて阿波国西祖谷山村（現在の徳島県三好市）に隠れ住んだとする説、平資盛に警護され薩摩国硫黄島（現在の鹿児島県三島村）に逃れたとする説、対馬に逃げ延びて宗氏の祖となった説をはじめとして九州四国地方を中心に全国に20ヶ所あまりの伝承地がある。