Hidetsugu, who was frightened for his own future, caused incidents of tsujikiri (killing ordinary people in the street to test a new sword; it is said that he killed a blind person without a reason) in Kyoto and other places, and the incidents labeled him as 'Sessho Kanpaku' (Killer-Kanpaku).
秀次は将来に不安を抱き、京都などで辻斬り（一般人を殺傷する事件、盲目の人間を故なく殺害したとされる）などを起こし「殺生関白」という悪名を広めたとされる。