(With regard to the story of visiting the sick Toshiie, on the contrary, there remains an episode that Toshiie had a naked sword hidden under his futon, or it is said that the above-mentioned story was the secondary historical material which was composed to submit to the bakufu [Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun] in the Edo period, and that it was the description so created that the Maeda family, a great tozama [outsider] daimyo, flattered the Tokugawa family. For that reason, it is unknown whether it was true or false.)
（だがこの見舞いの件に関しては一方で、利家が布団の下に抜き身の刀を忍ばせていたというエピソードが残っていたり、上記の話が江戸時代に幕府に提出するために作られた二次史料で、外様の大大名であった前田家が徳川家に媚びるため創作された記述とも言われ真偽は不明である。）