It is said that although he fought with Takauji and Yoshiakira ASHIKAGA several times in Kamakura and Kyoto by cooperating with the group of Yoshimune NITTA of the Southern Court, he was defeated by the army of the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) finally and was forced to surrender.
南朝(日本)の新田義宗らの勢力と共同して鎌倉・京都に何度も侵攻して尊氏や足利義詮と戦ったが、最後は幕府軍に敗れて降伏を余儀なくされたという。