Nanate-gumi indicates military units which Hideyoshi selected about 10,000 elite warriors and divided into seven during his life, and they worked as bodyguards of the Toyotomi family and for rituals for the Imperial Court, and the like.
七手組は秀吉が存命中に約1万の精鋭を7つの部隊にわけ、豊臣家の身辺警護から朝廷への儀礼などに用いた部隊。