During the rule of Mitsunari his good government enabled people of the Sawayama Domain to live in affluence, so that people in those days said that Mitsunari was too good on two points: Sakon SHIMA and Sawayama-jo Castle.
三成時代には佐和山はその善政によって民は豊かになり、「三成に過ぎたるものがふたつあり。島の左近（島左近）と佐和山城」と言われるほどであった。