However "Sekigahara Gunki Taise" (the grand collection of the war chronicles of Sekigahara) said that he belonged to Western Camp with his younger brothers, Nobuyoshi and Nobusada ODA, and he apologized and obtained absolution after the war.
しかし、『関原軍記大成』などでは、弟の織田信吉・信貞らとともに西軍に属し、戦後に謝罪、赦免されたという。