He went to Korea to join the Imjin war breaking out in 1592 as a retainer of Mori clan, and then he was appointed the post of Gungaiho (a chief magistrate in a foreign country) in the Korean Peninsula.
1592年から始まる文禄の役にも毛利氏家臣として出征し、朝鮮半島の地で代官職である「郡外邦」に任ぜられた。