The family moved to Wakasa Province where its shoryo (territory) was located, and lived there for several generations to avoid wars in the imperial capital from the middle of the Muromachi period to the Sengoku period (period of warring states in Japan).
室町時代中期から戦国時代_(日本)にかけては、都の戦乱を避け、数代にわたり、所領のある若狭国に移住していた。