While presenting varied gifts and attractions from all over the country, the feudal lords were already maneuvering and sounding each other out, both in secret and in the open, about how the government should be run following Hideyoshi's death.
古今東西の多彩な献上品やアトラクションが供せられる一方で、諸大名のあいだではすでに秀吉亡き後の政権のあり方について、陰に陽にさまざまな駆け引きや腹の探りあいがあったという。