His love for Gohime was true, and it is said that his order to convert religion stemmed from the ineffectiveness of prayers said by priests of the Nichiren Sect of Buddhism when she came down with illness.
豪姫に対する愛情は事実で、豪姫が病に倒れたとき、日蓮宗の僧侶が祈祷で病を治せなかったことが改宗命令につながったとされている。