Since his mid-sixties, he was active mainly in Oshu (Northern Honshu, the region encompassing Mutsu and Dewa provinces); in his latest years he lived under the patronage of the Tamura clan and is said to have died in the present-day Miharu-machi in Fukushima Prefecture.
60歳半ば以降は奥州を中心に活動、最晩年は田村氏の庇護のもと現在の福島県の三春町で没したとされる。