As Hideyoshi was impressed and praised for this, he gave a haori (half-coat) with the Kikukiri-mon crest to Sakon SHIMA in order to encourage fealty for Mitsunari (though other theories assert that Mitsunari employed Sakon when he was appointed as the lord of Sawayama with 190,000 koku, and that Sakon was a yoriki (lower-ranked samurai) who had supported Hideyoshi).
秀吉はこれに驚愕、そして賞賛し、島左近に三成への忠誠を促し、菊桐紋入りの羽織を与えた（ただし、佐和山19万石を得た時に家臣とした説、それとは別に秀吉からの寄騎であったとする説もある）。