According to the historical epic, Taiheiki (The Record of the Great Peace), these descendants of Masakane fought for the Akamatsu against the Yamana clan and then, as the Kanke-to party together with Emperor Godaigo, who had escaped from exile on Okinoshima Island, they fought against Rokuhara army of the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) including the Takeda clan and others in the Battle of Inokuma in Kyoto on April 29, 1330.
太平記では山名氏と赤松方として争い、また隠岐島から脱出した後醍醐天皇と共に菅家党として、元徳2年（1330年）4月3日、京都猪熊合戦で武田ら鎌倉幕府の六波羅軍と戦った。