The latest Assassin’s Creed is set in the times of Feudal Japan, and the story begins exactly in 1579, at the beginning of the period known as Azuchi-Momoyama — the end of the Sengoku era, which was a period of long civil war in Japan.
As in other instalments of the game, the story is based on real events and true characters — one of them being Oda Nobunaga, a daimyō (powerful Japanese magnate) who effectively dealt with the Takeda samurai clan. In the game, we have the opportunity to directly observe the historical assault by Nobunaga on the Iga province in 1581.
