TAIRA no Kiyomori, who had left Kyoto, went back to Kyoto pretending that he would serve under the victorious FUJIWARA no Nobuyori, but after that, the Emperor Nijo escaped to Kiyomori's Rokuhara residence by a plot of the Emperor Nijo's faction.
離京していた平清盛は勝者・藤原信頼に臣従するそぶりを見せて都に戻るが、その後、二条天皇親政派らの謀略によって二条天皇が清盛六波羅邸に脱出し、