After Takakage's death, most of the vassals who were sent from the Mori family, clansmen of the Kobayakawa family and heredity vassals moved to the Mori family, so the head family of Kobayakawa after that was not a Mori family but a Toyotomi family.
さらに隆景の死後、毛利家から小早川家に送り込まれた家臣、及び小早川家一門衆・譜代家臣の大半は毛利家に引き揚げており、これ以降の小早川本家は毛利一門ではなく、豊臣一門といえよう。