A pre-trip note for Kanazawa, Toyama, and Komatsu covering the late Sengoku period: the fall of Nanao Castle and the Oda advance into southern Kaga in 1577, Uozu Castle and the Honnōji Incident in 1582, Maeda Toshiie's Kanazawa Castle, the Battle of Suemori in 1584, Sassa Narimasa's journey to Hamamatsu and Hideyoshi's Etchū campaign of 1585, and the Battle of Asainawate at Komatsu in 1600, with later works of fiction and art.