Yodo-dono is said to have brought up her carefully as a biological child, but she was recorded as another child considered Yodo-dono's own (another child considered one's own is generally regarded as an adopted child having only the name of a biological child because he/she has no right of inheritance), not as an adopted child in the "Keicho nikkenroku," probably due to the matter of inheritance.
淀殿は彼女を実の子として大切に養育したというが、おそらく相続の問題で『慶長日件録』では養子ではなく猶子と記録されている（猶子は相続の権利が発生しないので普通は名前のみの養子と捉えられる）。