During the administrations of Nobunaga ODA and Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI (Azuchi Period and Momoyama Period (1568 - 1600)) as well as during in the Edo Period (1603-1868), the destruction of forests did not stop, and in Honshu (main island), Shikoku, Kyushu and southern Hokkaido regions, the major part of the forest exploitable by the technology available at that time had been lost.
織豊政権期、江戸時代に入っても日本列島の森林破壊は留まる所を知らず、1710年までには本州、四国、九州、北海道南部の森林のうち当時の技術で伐採出来るものの大半は失われた。