His fate can be contrasted with Nagamori MASHITA, another Gobugyo who remained in Osaka Castle as a rusuiyaku (or caretaker) and secretly gave out information about the Osaka (Western) army to Ieyasu, but who had his estates confiscated and was dismissed from his position after the Battle of Sekigahara.
同じ五奉行の増田長盛が同じく大坂城に留守居役として残り、大坂方（西軍）の情報を提供して家康に内通したにもかかわらず、関ヶ原の戦い後に所領を没収され改易されたのとは対照的である。