 The following year, Hideyoshi became Kampaku (Imperial regent), and Hidemasa was promoted to the fourth rank at court, and appointed to a new post as well.Following the siege of Negoro-ji and the invasion of Shikoku, he was given the lands of the late Niwa Nagahide, Kita no shō in Echizen Province, with an income of 180,000 "koku".During the 1587 Kyūshū Campaign, Hidemasa once again led the vanguard of Hideyoshi's forces.