In addition, there is a theory in which, Kunimatsu who escaped to Satsuma Province, was sheltered by the Shimazu clan, then became Nobutsugu KINOSHITA, the ancestor of the Kinoshita family and a family of Kotaiyoriai (a status of samurai warriors in the Edo period which was in charge of a rotating member of the top decision-making organ) as well as a branch family of the Hinode Domain in Bungo Province.
なお、国松は薩摩国に逃れて島津氏にかくまわれ、豊後国日出藩木下家の分家である交代寄合木下家の祖・木下延次になったという異説がある。