He left Kyoto to secure nengu (land tax), and went to Hosokawa no sho estate in Harima Province, that had been his family's territory successively inherited from the founder of his family, Tamesuke REIZEI.
年貢確保のため京都を離れ、家祖の冷泉為相以来相伝の所領播磨国細川庄に下向していた。