According to the legend, he wandered around various places after the Shimazu family obeyed Tokugawa, lived in Odate from 1625 under the patronage of the Satake clan, into which his fourth daughter Onda-hime (Oden-hime) had married, and died in 1641 at age 75 (there is also a grave of his legitimate son Daisuke).
島津家が徳川に恭順したため、その後は各地を放浪、寛永2年（1625年）から四女御田姫の嫁ぎ先の実家佐竹氏に庇護され大館に住み、寛永18年（1641年）に75歳で没したと伝えられる（嫡男大介の墓もある）。