Although Toshiie was excellent in bravery, in the Battle of Nagashino while he was chasing the withdrawing Takeda army, he got seriously injured by being cut deeply in the right leg by an enemy named Saemon YUGE, and was about to be nearly killed, just when he was saved by his vassal Nagayori MURAI and he had an experience of having a narrow escape from death
武勇に優れた利家であったが、長篠の合戦では撤退する武田軍を追撃している際に、弓削左衛門なる者に右足を深く切り込まれる重傷を負い、危うく命を獲られそうになった所を家臣の村井長頼に助けられ一命を得た事がある。