It would not be too much to say that, of the retainers, the hatamoto played the central role in the Sengoku period, although they could not attain brilliant military achievements, because they, for example, Kagechika CHIZAKA (CHISAKA), a retainer of Kenshin UESUGI, were deployed around the main war base in fighting..
例えば上杉謙信の家臣の千坂景親のように戦闘時に常に本陣周辺に配置されるため、華々しい戦果を残すことはあまりないが、戦国時代の家臣団の中枢を担うのは、この旗本家臣層にあったといっても過言ではない。