After the Shimabara siege, he landed on the island of Oshima, Japan and were later arrested at Chikuzen Province in May,1643.
Along the Buzen and Chikuzen coasts, Yoshitake was also in numerous amounts of battles.
Sumiyoshi was one of the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of the old Chikuzen Province.
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Close allies with the Kikkawa family, the Kobayakawa fought alongside the Kikkawa, Mōri, Toyotomi, and Ōtomo clans against the Shimazu, for control of Kyūshū at the end of the 16th century; they were awarded Chikuzen Province as their fief following the Shimazu's defeat, but the clan came to an end only a few decades later when Hideaki died without a successor.