Along with that, Mitsuhide called on the Kumishita daimyos (daimyos who served under powerful bushos) to join his camp, but father and son Yusai HOSOKAWA and Tadaoki HOSOKAWA, who were his relatives through marriage, showed a stance to maintain a neutral position by shaving their heads on June 3 to express their claimed intention of 'taking to mourning.'
その傍ら、組下大名に参戦を呼びかけたが、縁戚であった細川幽斎・細川忠興父子は3日に「喪に服す」と称して剃髪、中立の構えを見せた。