In 1582, when his father, Nobunaga, died in the Honnoji Incident, as he was still a young child, he was placed with Yukihiro UJIIE to be brought up.
天正10年（1582年）、本能寺の変において父・信長が死去したときはまだ幼年であったため、氏家行広に預けられて養育を受けた。