It is said that Ieyasu was a calm and composed resourceful general, but he had impatient and nervous characters as well: For example, it is said that when the eastern military group forces were placed in an advantageous situation in the initial phase of the Battle of Sekigahara, he cut the sashimono (flagpole) of the pageboy named Chozaburo MONNA.
家康は常に冷静沈着な知将だったとされているが、短気で神経質な一面も持ち、関ヶ原の序盤戦で東軍が不利だったとき、門奈長三郎という小姓の指物の竿を一刀のもとに切り捨てたという。