It is recorded that Goro TAKANASHI and Tokitsuna TAKANASHI fought Shinkaku KOSAKA (the sixth head of the Kosaka clan, which seems to have been the Nezu clan) in northern Shinano on the Southern Court side.
北信濃の南朝方香坂心覚（根津氏一族と思われる香坂氏6代目）との抗争にも高梨五郎・高梨時綱らの名前が出てくる。