Patriarch Yoshitaka previously in December 1159 at Mt. Tendai-san (Mt. Hiei centre of Tendai sect of Buddhism) rejected the late Satenkyu's (Yoshitomo's) order to serve.
父義隆は、去る平治元年十二月、天台山龍華越に於いて、故左典厩の奉為命を棄つ。