However, the situation gave the retainers of the Matsudaira clan the impression that, as described above, they had their lord taken as a hostage and were worked hard as tools of the Imagawa clan, and Takechiyo himself lived a life of submission, for example, by being ill-treated personally by a retainer of Yoshimoto IMAGAWA (Motoyasu HARAMIISHI).
ただし松平氏の家臣にとっては上述の通り主君を人質に取られて走狗として酷使された印象を与え、竹千代が今川義元の家臣（孕石元泰）から個人的な虐めを受けるなど、忍従の日々であった。