 The Ishida withdrew from service after the Azai's defeat in 1573.According to legend, he was a monk in a Buddhist temple before he served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but the accuracy of this legend is doubted since it only came about during the Edo period.Mitsunari met Toyotomi Hideyoshi when the former was still young and the latter was the "daimyō" of Nagahama.