It is recorded in Shinchoko-ki that Toshiie who had run away because of Kogai-giri (Japanese hairpin murder), when he took part in the Battle of Okehazama without Nobunaga's permission in order to get a chance to return to the Oda family, gained one severed head in the morning battle and two in the final battle, and when he then took part in the Battle of Moribe, made a great achievement of killing a stouthearted samurai who had another name "Kubitori Adachi".
笄斬りで出奔した利家が織田家復帰を賭けて信長に無断で参戦した桶狭間の戦いでも朝の合戦で首級一つ、本戦でも首級二つを挙げ、またその後の森部の戦いでは「頸取り足立」なる異名を持つ豪の者を討ち取る功を立てた、と信長公記に記されている。