He was treated as a person who was close to or a vassal (Yoriki, lower-ranked Samurai) of Hidetsugu, which might be caused from the common point of 'the Omi Province,' a territory of Hidetsugu.
秀次の領国「近江」という共通関係もあってか、秀次と近しい、もしくは配下（寄騎）の待遇であった。