Nobuyoshi is well known as a military commander who made the cause of the Battle of Sekigahara, and was said to have switched from the Uesugi clan to the Tokugawa clan to save himself.
信吉は関ヶ原の戦いの原因を作り出した武将として有名で、保身のために上杉氏から徳川氏に鞍替えしたと言われている。