When Hideyoshi died, he was given Daikanemitsu no tachi (a name of long sword) as a memento, which originally his grandfather Yoshihide had given to Hideyoshi with imina ji (a word of posthumous name), and the aristocrats of that time wondered the rum coincidence.
秀吉の死に際し、遺物として大兼光の太刀を拝領したが、この太刀は祖父義秀が秀吉へ諱字を与えた時に贈ったものであり、当時の公家などは奇縁を不思議がった。