Around this time, anti-Hideyoshi hardliners, such as Tadatsugu SAKAI and Tadakatsu HONDA, confronted soft-liners supporting Hideyoshi, such as Kazumasa ISHIKAWA, within the Tokugawa family, making the family face the crisis that it might be split.
また、この頃になると徳川家中は、酒井忠次・本多忠勝ら反秀吉の強硬派と、石川数正ら秀吉支持の穏健派が対立し、分裂の危機にあった。