Whether it was the intention of bakufu or not, the treatment of Masamune by Iemitsu himself was obviously beyond the degree of common practice, among those who were not hereditary or the original vassals of Tokugawa clan.
幕府の意向はどうあれ、家光個人が政宗に向けた処遇は、明らかに外様に遇する程度を超えている。