Especially, while the Azai clan received fierce attacks from Sadayori's son, Yoshikata ROKKAKU, Hisamasa's first legitimate son, Nagamasa AZAI, was not only forced to take the daughter of a Rokkaku's vassal to wife, but he, whose name was Shinkuro, was also obliged to change his nanori (the name one refers to himself as when reaching adulthood, in his case, 'Nagamasa') to 'Katamasa'; the Azai clan was gradually cast down to a position of the Rokkaku clan's retainer.
特に定頼の子・六角義賢からは大攻勢をかけられる一方で、六角家臣の娘を久政の嫡男・浅井長政に娶らされただけでなく、新九郎の名乗りも「賢政」にさせられるなど、徐々に六角氏に臣従化されていく。