This may be an evidence of how much Takanao had valued vassals, but four months after Takanao's death, bakufu issued the ban on self-immolation of an attendant on the death of his lord, as the self-immolation and self-immolations so far were regarded as a problem.
それだけ高直は家臣を大切にしていたのかもしれないが、この殉死をはじめとするこれまでの殉死などが問題視されて、幕府から殉死禁止令が出されたのは、高直の死後4ヵ月後のことであった。