Although Yoshimitsu dispatched Zekkai Chushin, a Zen monk, to Yoshihiro to surrender, Yoshihiro held up in a castle in Sakai City, in Izumi Province with his 5000 soldiers and waited for the reinforcements of Mitsukane.
義満は禅僧の絶海中津を派遣して降伏を勧めるが義弘は5000の軍勢を率いて和泉の堺市に籠城して満兼の援軍を待った。