After Ieyasu moved to the Kanto region, Nobuteru was assigned to serve as Tsukegaro (a chief retainer assigned directly by the shogun) for Tadakatsu HONDA, who became a daimyo and the lord of Otaki, Kazusa Province with 100.000 koku around 1591.
家康の関東移封後、1591年頃から上総国大多喜10万石城主・大名となった本多忠勝に、付け家老として配される。