Shincho Koki (a biography of Nobunaga ODA) contains a passage referring to the fact that Hideyoshi TOYOYMI regretted that Nobunaga had, in effect, let Yukimori YAMANAKA go to his death by not providing him with aid, and expressed his feelings to Nobutada ODA, Nobunaga's eldest son, saying that the way Yukimori had died had injured Nobunaga's reputation.
信長公記には、信長が事実上見殺しにしたことを豊臣秀吉が悔やみ、嫡子の織田信忠に対して「信長の名声に傷がついた」と嘆く一節がある。