Under suspicion that he committed adultery with court ladies who were serving Emperor Gotoba, he was executed by decapitation along with his disciple priests at the riverbank of Rokujo-gawara in 1207.
後鳥羽天皇の女房たちと密通をはたらいたという嫌疑をかけられ、1207年（建永2年・承元元年）、弟子の僧と共に六条河原で斬首に処せられた。