According to the story handed down in the family, he went away from Kyoto accompanying the Kazanin clan who was supposed to marry off a girl to Naotomo NABESHIMA, the lord of the Kashima Domain of the Hizen Province.
同家の伝承によれば、肥前国鹿島藩主鍋島直朝に嫁ぐことになった花山院氏に従って京都から下向した。