There also exist several stories about his later days where he was said to have retired or been confined; at the same time, there is a case in which Masayasu MIYOSHI disappeared from any historical materials for forty years only to abruptly appear again in the same materials.
同時に史料から姿を消し、四十年後に唐突に登場した三好政康の例もあり、長逸のその後については隠居・幽閉説など各種の説が存在する。