| At the Battle of Kiumi in November 1057 during the Earlier Nine Years' War, in which several hundred men died and only six riders escaped, Yoshiie was described as, 'the eldest son of the shogun, Yoshiie, without equal in strength or bravery, shot arrows from the back of the horse like a god. |
前九年の役のとき、1057年（天喜5）11月に数百の死者を出し大敗した黄海の戦いで、僅か六騎となって逃れたが、その戦いの中で「将軍の長男義家、驍勇絶倫にして、騎射すること神の如し。 |