With respect to the opinion that he has no resemblance in appearance to Hideyoshi, it is not worth looking into because, in addition to the above-mentioned blood line from his grandparents, the story that Nobunaga called Hideyoshi 'saru' (monkey) was fiction composed in a later age (Refer to the section for evaluation of Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI.)
なお、秀吉との間に外見の類似性がないという見方については、前述の祖父母の血統に加えて信長が秀吉を「猿」と呼んでいたことは後世の創作とも言われており、この点は検証に値しない（※豊臣秀吉評価の項を参照）。