He killed Iezumi KAKIMI, a busho of the West squad, and others and surrendered to the East squad; he was allowed to survive by Ieyasy while obtaining Shoryo Ando to be the first lord of the Hitoyoshi clan with 20,000 koku (approximately 3.6 million liters of crop yield).
西軍の武将である垣見家純らを殺害して降伏し、家康から所領を安堵されて存続を許され、2万石の人吉藩初代藩主となった。