With stories told about lowly samurai, such as Soun HOJO, Dosan SAITO and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI, climbing up the social ladder, it became common opinion that Soun was a low-born ronin.
その下克上の代表として北条早雲、斎藤道三、豊臣秀吉が語られ、早雲は身分の低い素浪人とすることが通説となった。