However, in the following year, 1600, he joined forces with the Eastern army at the Battle of Sekigahara and distinguished himself in battle, thereby earning a pardon for his crime from Ieyasu.
だが翌慶長5年（1600年）、関ヶ原の戦いでは東軍に参戦し武功を上げ、家康から罪を許された。