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Another historical anecdote about Nobuhide's death:
"When his father lay mortally ill in Owari, Nobunaga asked the bonzes to pray for his life and asked them whether he would recover from his illness. They assured him that he would, but he died a few days later. Nobunaga then had the bonzes thrown into a temple with the doors locked from the outside; he told the bonzes that, as they had lied to him about the health of his father, they had better pray to their idols with greater devotion for their own lives. After surrounding them on the outside, he shot some of them to death with harquebuses."
I think this shows that he cared in his own way for his father.
By the way, Nobunaga's brother's name was Nobuyuki, but he was also known as Nobukatsu (at the time people had many names). It is confusing because Nobunaga had a son also called Nobukatsu. Anyway, Nobunaga's brother conspired against him, and Nobunaga had to kill him.
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