Ieyasu, who had been one of the Go-tairo officers in the Toyotomi government, took the position of the head of samurai four and a half years after Hideyoshi's death, and established the position that surpassed the Toyotomi clan both in name and reality.
豊臣政権の五大老であった家康が、秀吉の死から4年半で武家の棟梁としての地位を手に入れ、名実ともに豊臣氏を上回る地位を確立した。