According to a different view, Kunimatsu escaped to Satsuma Province and he was sheltered by the Shimazu clan and became Nobutsugu KINOSHITA (Nobuyoshi KINOSHITA) who was founder of a branch family, that was a kotaiyoriai (alternate yoriai, a family status of samurai warriors in the Edo period), of the Kinoshita family of Hiji Domain in Bungo Province.
異説では、国松は薩摩国に落ち延びて島津氏に匿われた後、豊後国日出藩木下家の分家の交代寄合の祖、木下延次（木下延由）になったとされている。