In 1568, he had Katsuhisa AMAGO, a grandson of Kunihisa AMAGO's who was a Buddhist priest in Kyoto, leave the priesthood so that Shikanosuke could install him as the head of the Amago clan as part of his efforts to restore the Amago clan to its former status.
永禄11年（1568年）、鹿介は尼子氏を再興するために京都で僧籍にあった尼子国久の孫尼子勝久を還俗させて擁立した。