During the year before his death, he went to Nanto to perform Takigi-Noh after a long while, arranged an adoption from the Kongo family to his birth family the Hosho family, and taught Noh to Ieyasu's child Nobuyasu MATSUDAIRA.
死の前年には南都に上り久しぶりの薪能参勤を果たし、生家宝生家に金剛家からの養子を斡旋、また家康の子・松平信康の能の指南役を勤めた。