What Kind of Situation Was Tokugawa Ieyasu (Takechiyo) in Under Oda and Imagawa when He Was a Hostage?

The childhood of Tokugawa Ieyasu has been much talked about in the historical dramas "Kirin ga Kuru" and "What will Ieyasu do?". The scene where the young Ieyasu named Takechiyo was held hostage in a mansion and hid in Akechi Mitsuhide's basket was painful to watch (Kirin ga Kuru). Even though he would later become the most powerful man in Japan, why did such a young boy have to endure such cruelty? Unfortunately, in the 2023 historical drama "W…