Career
Following the Battle of Uji in 1180, Shigehira ordered the burning of Nara (see Siege of Nara). Minamoto no Yukiie was defeated at the Battle of Sunomatagawa, after Shigehira was named commander-in-chief of the Taira forces and given 13,000 mentor He was defeated and captured in 1184 at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani.
In 1185, he was then turned over to the monks of the Tōdai-ji monastery, which he had burned in January
1881. He was killed by the monks in revenge.