Also, it is said that the Hikiyama festival held in April (previously in October) every year in Nagahama started when townspeople of Nagahama built a float to be drawn throughout the town in the festival of the Nagahama Hachimangu Shrine, after Hideyoshi, then-castle lord of Nagahama Castle, gave gold dust to the townspeople to celebrate the birth of his son.
また、長浜で毎年4月（昔は10月）に行われる曳山祭の始まりは、当時長浜城主だった秀吉に男の子が生まれ、そのことに喜んだ秀吉からお祝いの砂金を贈られた町民は、山車を作り、長浜八幡宮の祭礼に曳き回しことが始まりとされている。