Kazutoyo YAMANOUCHI acting as the lord of Tosa Domain sent Ieyasu a request asking 'to relieve the governor of Echizen Province from the confinement,' which was accepted, and Tsunaie was invited to take the position of the magistrate of building a castle which yielded 7,000 koku in rice.
土佐藩主となった山内一豊から家康に「越前守の蟄居を解く」願いが出されて許可されたため、七千石の築城奉行として迎えられた。