Tametomo is known in the epic chronicles as a powerful archer and it is said that he once sunk an entire Taira ship with a single arrow by puncturing its hull below the waterline.

[1] He fought in the Siege of Shirakawa-den, along with his father, against the forces of Taira no Kiyomori and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, his brother.

Tametomo eventually killed himself by slicing his abdomen, or committing seppuku.

[1] During the Edo period, a descendant of Tametomo named Kitō Heinai (鬼頭 兵内) was involved in the 1754 Hōreki River incident.

[3] He is the focus on Takizawa Bakin’s novel Chinsetsu yumihari-zuki [ja] (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon).