Fall of Ishiyama Hongan-ji

Timeline

1. 1570–1580Ishiyama Hongan-ji fortress · Osaka PrefectureFrom the outbreak of the Battle of Ishiyama in 1570, Oda Nobunaga laid a prolonged siege on the Hongan-ji fortress relying on the Yodo River water network. In the late 1570s, Nobunaga defeated the Mōri naval supply lines, and contact between the Hongan-ji garrison and the outside grew increasingly difficult.
2. 1580Ishiyama Hongan-ji · Osaka PrefectureIn the eighth month of Tenshō 8, Hongan-ji's leader Kennyo accepted Nobunaga's terms, leading his followers out of Ishiyama and heading to Wakayama in Kii. The two sides reached an agreement in which Hongan-ji acknowledged the Oda side's victory, and the Ishiyama stronghold was formally disarmed.
3. 1580Kinai · Kinki regionThe buildings and defenses of Ishiyama Hongan-ji were dismantled; the Oda regime consolidated control over Osaka Bay and the commercial cities of Kinai, large-scale armed resistance by the Ikkō-ikki subsided, and Nobunaga was able to concentrate his forces against the remaining independent powers.