However, while in Bizen Province he escaped, killed Nariuji KURAMITSU who was on the watch, gathered 2,000 soldiers with whom he barricaded himself in a fortress in Sasanosemari (a watershed area along Sasagase-gawa River), Fukuryu-ji Nawate, and rose in revolt against Yoshinaka.
しかし、備前国で逃亡を図り、監視役の倉光成氏を殺害し、2000人もの兵を集めて福隆寺縄手・笹の迫に立てこもって義仲に反旗を翻す。