In about 1582, he was given 5000 koku (a unit of volume: rice 1-koku is 180.39 liter) by the Miyabe family and became a chief vassal of Hidetsugu HASHIBA (later Hidetsugu TOYOTOMI) who was a nephew of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.
天正10年（1582年)ごろ宮部家中から、5000石を与えられ、秀吉の甥の羽柴秀次（のちの豊臣秀次)の宿老となった。