After Hideyoshi died, he worked as an arbitrator of the fight between the military government group and the civilian government group whose conflict had become actualized, and made every effort to lay a restraint on Ieyasu TOKUGAWA who maneuvered behind the scenes to usurp the hegemony, but he also died of disease eight months after the death of Hideyoshi.
秀吉の死後、対立が顕在化する武断派、文治派の争いに仲裁役として働き、覇権奪取のため横行する徳川家康の牽制に尽力するが、秀吉の死の8ヶ月後に病没した。