His father Takatsune led the shogunate government as a guardian of Yoshimasa, but fell from power and was confined in Echizen due to Doyo who was affiliated with Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA in the Join incident in August 1366.
父の高経が義将の後見として幕政を指揮するが、貞治5年/正平21年（1366年）8月の貞治の変では、細川頼之と結んだ道誉などのため失脚して越前に逼塞する。