After the older brother Yoshihisa surrendered at Taihei-ji Temple, he continued to resist in his shoryo (territory), Kedoin-cho, and cleverly enticed the Hideyoshi army into a rough and dangerous street, then surprised the tenkabito (person becoming the ruler of the country) by shooting six arrows at the palanquin of Hideyoshi, the kanpaku (chief adviser to the Emperor).
兄義久が泰平寺(薩摩川内市)にて降伏後は、一転して自身の所領祁答院町にて抵抗、秀吉軍を巧みに険相な路へと引き込み、関白である秀吉の駕籠に矢を六本射掛け天下人の肝を冷やさせている。