many people unofficially considered the Mito daimyo to be "vice-shogun".

Nakayama Nobuyoshi (ja), a young samurai whose father's sacrifice at Odawara was recognized by Ieyasu, was taken in by Ieyasu as a page. Following Sekigahara, he would be rewarded for his service by being named chief retainer to Yorifusa, and his descendants subsequently given the hereditary lordship