In 1361, while serving as Samuraidokoro no Tsukasa (a samurai office), he led a force of some 500 soldiers to Ninjo-ji Temple in Settsu Province to confront Kiyouji HOSOKAWA, who had lost his position because of his father's resistance to the bakufu and was on his way to attack Kyoto.
正平16年/康安元年（1361年）には侍所司を務めており、父の諫言により失脚し南朝(日本)方として京に攻め入ろうとしていた細川清氏と、摂津国忍常寺において500余騎を持って対した。