His life was fraught with misfortune: when he was sixteen years old, his father, Koretada, died suddenly and, two years later, two elder brothers of his died from a disease on the same day.
16歳の時、父・伊尹が急死し、2年後には二人の兄が同日に病死するという災難に見舞われ、不遇の時代を過ごす。