This should have caused him to be punished after the war, but he was granted Shoryo Ando (act of providing authorization for land ownership and guaranteeing feudal tenure) because his second son Hideie took the side of the Eastern squad and played an important role in the final battle in Sekigahara.
そのため、本来ならば戦後に処罰されるはずであったが、次男の秀家が東軍に属して関ヶ原本戦で活躍したため、所領を安堵されたのである。