In the same year, however, he was arrested as a criminal of the incident of killing one thousand people with a sword in the suburbs of Kyoto in Yamashina, for which not only he took the tonsure and called himself 長意, but also was deprived of being a samurai and taken into custody of Toshiie MAEDA.
しかし同年、山科における洛外千人斬り事件で犯人として逮捕され、剃髪して長意と号して士籍を剥奪され、前田利家に身柄を預けられた。