This didn't mean that hospitality to the royal retainers by the Mizuno family was inferior to that of the Hosokawa family, but Mizuno was slightly less enthusiastic than Hosokawa, by which one can assume that Mizuno was a relatively calm person.
決して水野家の義士達へのもてなしが細川家に劣ったわけではないが、水野は細川と比べるとやや熱狂ぶりが少なく、比較的冷静な人物だったのかもしれない。