When Akitsuna was the guard of Hioka, Masanori FUKUSHIMA, the lord of Hiroshima-jo Castle in Aki Province, dispatched his chief retainer Kaemon SAKUMA as a messenger to Ieyasu who was staying at Fushimi-jo Castle.
昭綱が日岡の守衛をしていた際、安芸国広島城主の福島正則が、家老の佐久間嘉右衛門を伏見城の家康のもとへ使者として派遣した。