To these demands, Ujinao explained his inability to visit the capital that there were rumors that Ujimasa would be detained or his ruling domain would be changed, and urged Hideyoshi to remove these worries before going up to the capital, claiming that the difference in treatment between him in the Nagurumi Incident and Ieyasu TOKUGAWA who received good treatment from Hideyoshi when offering his vassalage; Ieyasu was allowed to take Hideyoshi's younger sister, Asahihime, for his wife, i.e. Ieyasu had Omandokoro (the mother of Hideyoshi) as a sort of his hostage before visiting the capital.
これに対して氏直は、氏政抑留か国替えの惑説があるため上洛できないことと、徳川家康が臣従時に秀吉が朝日姫と婚姻し大政所を人質とした上で上洛した厚遇を受けたことに対して、名胡桃事件における北条氏に対する秀吉の態度との差を挙げ、抑留・国替がなく心安く上洛を遂げられるよう要請した。