However, the wife of Tsuneyoshi ICHIKAWA, charged with defending Konomine-jo Castle, offered fierce resistance with a small band of soldiers and Teruhiro was stopped at Tsukiyama yakata (a villa of the Ouchi clan in Yamaguchi), and could not fully occupy Yamaguchi.
しかし高嶺城を守る市川経好夫人が、少ない城兵を指揮し、徹底して抗戦したため、輝弘は山口の大内氏別邸築山屋形に入るに止まり、山口を完全に占領することができなかった。