However, temples also started to show an anti-Taira clan trend even at Enryaku-ji Temple, which was in the same Tendai sect as Onjo-ji Temple and was a pro-Taira clan, and this created a situation where Kiyomori was surrounded by powerful temples, and he therefore abandoned Kyoto, which was geographically disadvantageous to the Taira clan.
しかし寺社勢力、特に園城寺と同じ天台宗で親平氏の延暦寺でも反平氏勢力の動きがあり、清盛は有力寺社に囲まれ平氏にとって地勢的に不利な京都を放棄。