When Yoshiaki was exiled from Kyoto by Nobunaga, he was not killed because of the intervention of Kennyo of Honganji-Temple; Yoshiaki fled to Yoshitsugu MIYOSHI (a leader of the MIYOSHI clan), who was a feudal lord of Kawachi and his sister's husband.
信長によって京を追われたとき、本願寺顕如らの仲介もあって信長は助命し、妹婿の河内の大名である三好義継（三好家当主）のもとへ亡命した。