He liked Igo (a board game of capturing territory) (it is said that the word "meijin" (master) originated from Nobunaga) and Kowaka-mai and disliked sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the eleventh to fourteenth centuries).
囲碁（名人という言葉は信長発祥といわれている）・幸若舞を好み、猿楽（能）を嫌った。