in the intercalary second month in 1181 , it was planned that munemori , himself , would go as a search-and-destroy envoy to kanto and ' most samurai of the family will leave for the local (source: article for february 26 in " gyokuyo " ), ' but as kiyomori ' s illness worsened to ' no hope in nine cases out of ten ' and the dispatching of the army was postponed . (source: article for the first day of the intercalary second month in " gyokuyo " ). 翌閏2月には、関東への追討使として宗盛が自ら出馬して「一族の武士、大略下向」する予定だったが（『玉葉』2月26日条）、清盛の病が「十の九はその憑み無し」という状況となり派兵は延期となる（『玉葉』閏2月1日条）。
