In the Battle of Keikai during attack of Mino in 1562, he and Toshiie MAEDA offered the neck of Mataemon INABA each other, which remained unsettled, so Katsuie SHIBATA cut the neck and reported what happened to Nobunaga and Nobunaga commended three of them (according to Jyozankidan and Meisho Genkoroku [the collections of anecdotes of great commanders in Japanese history]).
永禄5年（1562年）美濃攻めの際、軽海の戦いにおいて敵将・稲葉又衛門の首を前田利家と譲り合って埒があかないので、柴田勝家がその首をあげ、その次第を報告して信長に三人とも褒められたという（常山記談・名将言行録等）。