When Yoshitsune later on received an order for a punitive expedition against Yoritomo by Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa and raised an army, in spite of Yoshitsune's spectacular win at the battle to put down the Taira clan only a small number of samurai agreed to join him.
後に義経が後白河法皇から頼朝討伐の院宣を得て挙兵した時も、平氏討伐戦で義経が華々しい戦勝をしていたにも関わらずこれに応じる武士は僅かしかいなかった。 |