Furthermore, Nobunaga temporarily retired and returned his whole territories to the Shiba clan merely for form's sake to deceive several other clans, and entered into an alliance with the Kira clan and the Imagawa clan.
さらに信長は諸国の目を欺くため、一時、隠居し所領のすべてを斯波氏に返上した形をとり、吉良氏、今川氏との同盟を結んだ。