When on the way to attack the Takeda clan, Mitsuhide said, "our efforts have been rewarded"; seeing powerful anti-Takeda families in Shinano Province gathering around the Nobunaga army, Nobunaga became furious, asked "what have you done ?" and ordered a page boy Ranmaru MORI to hit Mitsuhide with an iron fan, which humiliated Mitsuhide (Akechi Gunki).
武田征伐の際に、信濃の反武田派の豪族が織田軍の元に集結するさまを見て「我々も骨を折った甲斐があった」と光秀が言った所、「お前が何をしたのだ」と信長が激怒し、小姓の森蘭丸に鉄扇で叩かれ恥をかいた（明智軍記）。