It is known that Yodo-dono invited her cousin Nobuo ODA, who was wandering around Kyoto City, to Osaka-jo Castle to allow him to live there, and when her younger sister Go remarried Hidetada TOKUGAWA, Yodo-dono adopted Sadako TOYOTOMI, a daughter between Go and her former husband Hidekatsu TOYOTOMI, and brought her up as her own child.
淀殿は京都で放浪していた従兄の織田信雄を大坂城に招いて住まわせたり、妹の督が徳川秀忠に再嫁する際に前夫豊臣秀勝との間にできていた豊臣完子を引き取って我が子同然に育てた事も知られる。