When Mori Takamoto became Daimyo he demanded a 27 year old " child " as a hostage but Oda Nobunaga refused to give his younger brother to the Mori.

However, by around 1573, Oda Nobunaga began demanding the Emperor's abdication, but the Emperor refused.

Against the advice provided by Sakuma Nobumori, Hiraide Norihide and Takigawa Kazumasa, who had been sent by Nobunaga, and by his own generals, Torii Motohiro, Ogasawara Nagayoshi, Matsudaira Ietada, Honda Tadakatsu and Ishikawa Kazemasa, Ieyasu refused to allow the Takeda army to pass through his territory unhindered, and drew up his forces on a high plain called Mikatagahara, just north of Hamamatsu.

Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japan before his death in 1582.

Nobunaga eventually cast him out, making alliances created in the Shiba clan's name void.

Hideyoshi led troops in the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 in which Oda Nobunaga allied with future rival Tokugawa Ieyasu ( who would eventually displace Hideyoshi's son and rule Japan ) to lay siege to two fortresses of the Azai and Asakura clans.

This eventually forced Shibata Katsuie to commit seppuku along with his wife Lady Oichi ( younger sister of Nobunaga ) following the betrayal of Maeda Toshiie.

Katsuie pledged his services to Nobunaga, earning his praise until eventually Nobunaga would offer Katsuie the hand of his younger sister, Oichi, in marriage.

After being governed by a succession of minor daimyo, the region was eventually conquered by Oda Nobunaga in the Sengoku Period.

This incident strained the relationship between Nobunaga and Mitsuhide to eventually culminating in Mitsuhide killing Nobunaga at Honnō-ji in 1582.

Recca soon discovers that he possesses the innate ability to control / manipulate flames, and eventually learns that he is actually the son of the sixth generation leader of the Hokage, a ninja clan that was wiped out by Oda Nobunaga in 1576, roughly 400 years before the series ' present day.

Their growing power base would eventually attract the attention of warlords like Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who recognized their opposition to samurai rule, their determination, their strength, and their numbers.

Many fought alongside their fellow monks, the Ikkō-ikki, against Nobunaga, who eventually crushed them and put an end to the time of the warrior monks.

Nobunaga plans to take over the world and Kage eventually uses the Aleste to stop him once and for all which is depicted in the game's ending sequence.

Nobunaga began his campaign to reunify Japan from his stronghold at Kiyosu Castle.

Though Sengoku battles continued to rage as they had for the previous century, growing larger and more tactically complex, it was at this time that the many " warring states " began to be united, first under Oda Nobunaga, then under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The authority of the Imperial Court also began to fall, but this trend reversed after Oda Nobunaga entered Kyoto in a show of allegiance to the Emperor but which also indicated that the Emperor had the support of the Oda clan.

During Ōgimachi's reign, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Imperial Family was able to halt the political, financial, and cultural decline it had been in since the Ōnin War, and began a time of recovery.

Mitsuhide began serving Nobunaga after the latter's conquest of Mino province in 1566 and received Sakamoto ( in Omi, 100, 000 koku ) in 1571.

The Ikki began firing as soon as the rain let up, and even came quite close to killing Nobunaga.

* 1573 ( Genki 4, 2nd month ): Yoshinaka began to fortify Nijō Castle ; and he sent messages to Azai Nagamasa, Asakura Yoshikage, and Takeda Shingen, announcing his intention to engage Nobunaga.

It was at this point that Oda Nobunaga began sending his generals aggressively into all directions to continue his military expansion.

Oichi remained with her husband at Odani Castle throughout the conflict, even after Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a trusted vassal of Nobunaga at the time, began laying siege to the castle.

Oda Nobunaga was forced to revise his tactics and began to attack the outposts, and the supporters of the Ikki.

In 1582, the death of Oda Nobunaga in the Incident at Honnōji left Kai and Shinano Provinces without an overlord, and the struggle between Ieyasu and Hōjō Ujinao began.

Nobunaga agreed to install Yoshiaki as the new shogun and, grasping the opportunity to enter Kyoto, started his campaign.

Like Nobunaga before him, Hideyoshi never achieved the title of shogun.

* August 27 – Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.

Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun.

When the shogun Yoshiteru was assassinated in 1565, an ambitious daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, seized the opportunity and installed Yoshiteru's brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun.

The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga.

* 1568 – Oda Nobunaga sets Yoshiaki up as shogun.

Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shogun.

Oda Nobunaga and Uesugi Kenshin were among the many daimyo and samurai who travelled to Kyoto to pay their respects to the shogun.

Nobunaga, making a stop-over in Kyoto on his way west with only a small contingent of guards, was attacked by one of his own disaffected generals, Akechi Mitsuhide.

After the betrayal of Akechi Mitsuhide which led to the death of both Oda Nobunaga and his heir Oda Nobutada, Morimasa sided with Shibata Katsuie over making Oda Nobutaka ( the third son of Nobunaga ) as heir to the Oda clan whereas Hashiba Hideyoshi ( later Toyotomi Hideyoshi ) supported Lord Sanboshi.

In the Sixth Month of 1582, her father Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed and killed his lord, Oda Nobunaga, making the teenage Tama a traitor's daughter.

The Hongan-ji came under siege from the forces of Oda Nobunaga in 1576, but, due in part to its position on the coast, managed to hold out for five years, making this the longest siege in Japanese history.

Kainan High School Player Kyota Nobunaga also appears in one eyecatch making him the only Non-Shohoku Player to appear in the eyecatches

During the period from 1576 to 1579, Nobunaga constructed on the shore of Lake Biwa at Azuchi ( in present-day Shiga Prefecture ) Azuchi Castle, a magnificent seven-story castle that was intended to serve not simply as an impregnable military fortification but also as a sumptuous residence that would stand as a symbol of unification.

Toshimasu was originally intended to inherit Maeda family headship ; however, after Oda Nobunaga replaced Toshihisa with Toshiie as Maeda family head, he lost this position.

Nobunaga intended it as a lavish mansion, which would impress and intimidate his rivals, not only with its defenses, but with its lavish apartments and decorations, and flourishing town and religious life.