Daini watched over Komatsu Castle [ja] from 1856, and was a bugyō to Maeda Yoshiyasu, the heir to the fiefdom of Kaga, from 1860.
[4] As a soba yōnin (側用人), Daini accompanied Yoshiyasu to Kyoto in an attempt for mediation between the Chōshū samurai and the Tokugawa shogunate at the time of the Kinmon incident in 1864.
Daini took responsibility for Yoshiyasu's role in the Kinmon incident, and was forced to perform seppuku with Sagawa Yoshisuke as his kaishakunin.
[5][6] Daini is interred at Shōgyōin (正行院) in Makino, Shiga,[7][8] while his head is enshrined at Myōkei-ji (妙慶寺) in Kanazawa.
[9] In 1879, buildings owned by the Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa Hospital were built on the site where Daini's family once resided.