In the samurai society at that time, women were accustomed to being treated differently from men, but Hideyoshi ignored this by executing almost all the family members of Hidetsugu; a wife, concubines, and children.
当時の武家社会でも男子はともかく女性は助けられるのが慣例であり、秀吉が秀次の妻妾子女ほぼ全員を処刑したのはそれを無視したものであった。