In Japan at the time, they had been granted half the provinces (in excess of 30 provinces) and boasted of a splendor that 'Those who have never lived as part of the Family must be brutes' (in fact, this statement included an exaggeration; at that period of time there would have been a maximum of 12 individuals in line to be nobles).
当時の日本の半国に当たる、三〇余国を知行し、「この一門にあらざらむ者はみな人非人なるべし」と豪語するほどの栄華を極めた（ただし、この表現には誇張が含まれており、同時期に公卿に列した人数は最大でも12名であった）。