In a later period, in 1467 in the time of Motozumi MATSUDA (松田元澄) when the Onin War occurred, he took sides with the Akamatsu clan in the Eastern army, and made a great achievement to clear off the Yamana clan in the Western army, which made him the Akamatsu clan's vassal, in a position equivalent to Shugodai (deputy military governor) in Ifuku-go.
時代が下り、松田元澄の代になり応仁元年（1467年）、応仁の乱が起こると東軍の赤松氏方につき、西軍の山名氏の追い落としに功績があり、赤松氏の被官になり、伊福郷の守護代に相当する地位になった。