It is said the reason why Ieyasu gave important posts to Naomasa, whose family had not been serving the Tokugawa clan, was not only because of Naomasa's great ability in tactical maneuvers and politics, his military prowess, nor his relation by his daughter's marriage to Tadayoshi MATSUDAIRA, the fourth son of Ieyasu, but was chiefly because Naomasa was such a beautiful man that Ieyasu fell for him seriously, despite his general dislike of homosexuality.
先祖代々、徳川氏の家臣ではない直政を家康が重用した理由は、直政が武勇だけではなく、知略や政治にも長けていたことや家康の四男・松平忠吉との姻戚関係のことももちろんだが、最大の理由は、直政があまり衆道を好まなかった家康に本気で惚れ込まれるほどの美男子だったからだと言われている。