Also it is said that his wife and children were allowed to accompany Hidehisa in a tour to go up to Edo and that an envoy of the shogun was always sent from the Bakufu to meet him at Itabashi-shuku, (the first shukuba from Edo on the Nakasendo).
また、秀久が江戸に参府する時は道中の妻子同伴が許されており、必ず幕府からの上使が板橋宿まで迎えに来ていたという。