The Oda, Matsudaira, and Nozawa families' alliance was officially established. After dealing with the hunting event—where the Matsudaira family took first place—Matsudaira Mototaka looked honest enough, but without making a fuss, he quietly showed off his strength enough that no one in the Oda family dared to underestimate them.
Well, the overall military level of Japan's Warring States was pretty backward—they'd been closed off on the island for years, not great at military tech or organization—but when it came to individual Samurai skills and tactics, they were surprisingly impressive. In the "Ming Chronicles" there are accounts of Wokou "pillaging like the wind, leaping several zhang in one bound," and "catching arrows with their hands, stunning the armies into rout."
