In Kashiwazaki City, he belonged to the Chijin-tai (resistance group composed of the Kuwana Domain's retainers) led by Hidehachi MATSUURA and when they were forced to fight from the besieged castle in the Aizu War, he left there to escort Sadaaki MATSUDAIRA, the lord of the Kuwana domain to the Sendai Domain, with Shirobe TANIGUCHI who was also a feudal retainer of the Kuwana Domain.
柏崎市で松浦秀八率いる致人隊に所属し、会津戦争で籠城戦が始まると同藩士谷口四郎兵衛と共に藩主・松平定敬を護衛して仙台藩へ落ちる。