Therefore, he wandered about the Chugoku region and the Kyushu region serving and being entrusted with important job by Yukinaga KONISHI, Kiyomasa KATO, Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, Narimasa SASSA, and Chikanari MIMURA; however, he did not last long in any of his positions due to his fiery temperament in addition to an interruption from the Mizuno family by the above hokokamae.
そのため、主に中国地方や九州を放浪し小西行長、加藤清正、豊臣秀吉や佐々成政、三村親成らに仕えて重用されるが、前述の奉公構えによる水野家からの横槍に加えて気性の激しさなども手伝っていずれも長続きしなかった。