In July 1466, he returned to secular life due to his father Yoshitoshi's restitution, and in the Onin war, he belonged to Eastern Camp and went down to Echizen Province with his grandfather Mochitane SHIBA and father Yoshitoshi, and attacked Yoshikado SHIBA, who belonged to Western Camp of the same province.
文正元年（1466年）7月、父義敏の復権に伴い還俗、応仁の乱では東軍に属し、祖父斯波持種、父義敏とともに越前へ下向、同国の西軍斯波義廉方を攻めている。