After Yoriyuki was pardoned, he participated in 1390, along with Yoriyuki, in the battle for hunting down Tokihiro YAMANA in Sanin at the behest of shogun Yoshimitsu and died the following year at the age of 60.
頼之の赦免後、元中7年/明徳元年（1390年）には将軍義満の命で頼之とともに山陰の山名時熙の追討に加わり、翌年には60歳で死去。