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The Ishiyama Hongan-ji War was a Sengoku military campaign by Oda Nobunaga and his forces against the Ikkō-ikki, a faction of the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist sect, lasting from 1570 until 1580.

The Jōdo Shinshū were a sect whose power and wealth worried Nobunaga, who feared that the sect could issue a statement against him, declaring him an enemy and raising armies from their followers. He then launched a siege against their main compound in Osaka, which lasted much longer than expected due to the waterways leading to the complex since Chief Abbot Kōsa had allies that managed to supply the castle by sea until Oda eventually defeated these mariners.[1]

The Ikkō-ikki surrendered in 1580, after a court noble was sent by Emperor Ōgimachi to broker a settlement between the two parties.[2] When the Ikkō-ikki were forced out of their fortress, Kōsa's son set fire to the complex, not wishing for it to fall into Nobunaga's hands.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Echoes of History – Shadows – Episode 1: Civil War in Feudal Japan: The Sengoku Period
  2. Echoes of History – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga