In addition, as Ieyasu was appointed to Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") in 1603 and began construction of Edo-jo Castle and commenced the establishment of a samurai government, Hideyori was virtually ousted from the seat of power and absorbed into the Tokugawa government.
さらに慶長8年（1603年）、家康が朝廷より征夷大将軍に任じられ、江戸城の普請を行い武家政権構築を始めた事により、秀頼は実質的に権力の座から外され、徳川政権に組み込まれることとなった。