Mitsunari returned to Sawayama Castle guarded by the Ieyasu's second son, Hideyasu YUKI, on March 10 (some documents state that Mitsunari escaped to Ieyasu's residence in Mukojima in this incident but their sources, such as "History of Japanese Warfare, Sekigahara-no-eki," were written after the Meiji period).
3月10日、三成は家康の次男・結城秀康に守られて、佐和山城に帰城した（この事件時、三成が単身で向島の家康の屋敷に難を逃れたとする書物が多いが、これらの典拠となっている資料は明治期以降の「日本戦史・関原役」などである）