A painted fiberglass sculpture or model of Oda Nobunaga, depicted in the middle of a war at his tent, made in England, 2005. As you can see, half of the props are historically-correct and the rest are totally wrong. Notice the sandals, for example.

Click here for pictures of the real Oda Nobunaga at war.

This picture was sent by Mei Huangyen from Sichuan, China. She found a local potter's vase with pictures of Japanese 'Warring States Period' personalities, one of which was of course Oda Nobunaga.

Thank you so much, Mei.

This smirking Oda in Elizabeth-Taylorian fake fur winter coat is from a computer game in 2000.

Easy to guess that in this picture Oda Nobunaga is made to be some evil force with magic at his disposal, a routine depiction of him since the dawn of videogames in 1980's.

This picture that very much looks like a real photograph from 19th century is of course just a painting; and a German painting in that matter, printed in a book about traditional Japanese crafts that was published in 1956.

I really thank Günther Dau for digging up this piece from his grandma's attic (at least that's what I imagine to be the case).

A watercolor painting of Oda Nobunaga that was sent by Rafi Zdanek, from Dallas, Texas. Thanks a lot.

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