The story goes that the soldiers in the Tokugawa army, thinking 'Since Mitsunari possessed such luxury, surely the castle will be completely full of wondrous splendors,' each scrambled to be the first to break into the castle, but they discovered the castle had plain, unadorned walls, and was in fact a very spartan building without any decorations at all.
徳川方の兵士は「栄華を極めた三成はさぞ華美を尽くしたのだろう」と思い、我先にと城内に乱入したが、城の壁は粗壁であり、また何の装飾もない質素な作りとなっていたという。