For example, an anecdote in the Battle of Shizugatake tells that although he betrayed Katsuie SHIBATA, he gave a warm reception to escaping Katsuie to weaken the impression of betrayal, or another remaining story tells that while Toshiie supported the Toyotomi family as the guardian of Hideyori, when he was about to die, he asked Ieyasu who came to see him in a sick bed to take care of his son Toshinaga.
賤ヶ岳の戦いの際、柴田勝家を裏切りながら落ちてきた勝家を厚遇し、裏切ったという印象を薄めたり、秀頼の後見人として豊臣家を支えつつも、死の間際、利家の病床を見舞いに来た家康に息子の利長の事を頼んだとの話しが残ったりもしている。