Murashige ARAKI, who accepted once the words of the emissaries including Mitsuhide AKECHI and departed Arioka-jo Castle to visit Azuchi-jo Castle and make explanation by himself offering his mother as a hostage, dropped at Ibaraki-jo Castle.
明智光秀らの使者の言を一旦聞き入れ自ら安土城に赴き母親を人質に釈明すべく有明城を出立した荒木村重は、途中茨木城に立ち寄った。