By this point, SAKUMA had taken command of the biggest army among the Oda family in the Kinki region, and taking account of the fact that he had been a senior member since Nobunaga's succession, he was in a position which was called the "vice-president of Oda Joint-Stock Corporation," as novelist Yo TSUMOTO says.
この時点まで佐久間は近畿の地に織田家中で最大規模の軍団を統括し、信長相続前からの古参であることもあわせ、作家津本陽いわく”織田株式会社の副社長”ともいうべき位置にあった。