However, in the documents of the Yugyo-ji Temple (the Head Temple of the Ji sect) in the period of the Northern and Southern Courts there is a story that when Yoshiie was born, the land of Kamakura and his residence was given to his father MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi from his maternal grandfather TAIRA no Naokata.
しかし、義家が生まれたとき、鎌倉の地が、屋敷とともに母方の祖父平直方から、父源頼義に譲られたという話が、南北朝時代の遊行寺（時宗本山）の文書に見える。