However, due to conflicting perspectives regarding a stance against Muromachi bakufu and his partiality toward his second son Tadachika KIKUCHI, he faced up to his son Mochitomo KIKUCHI, was consequently stripped of the family estate, and was exiled to Sashiki, Ashikita County.
しかしその後、室町幕府への姿勢への意見対立と、次男の菊池忠親への偏愛により、子の菊池持朝と争って家督を奪われ、蘆北郡佐敷に追放されてしまった。