recurring character in the Warriors Orochi series. Oichi also appears in Nioh 2. In the light novel series, Honnouji kara Hajimeru Nobunaga to no Tenka Touitsu, the protagonist Makoto Kurosaka after being time slipped to the Sengoku period and saving Nobunaga's life during the Honnouji Incident, Makoto have changed history including the fate of Oichi and her daughters, due to her brother Nobunaga surviving the Honnouji Incident with Makoto's unintentional intervention with Akechi's assassination scheme, an alternate history has been created, where Oichi did not remarry Shibata Katsuie, thus avoided her original tragic fate of dying in the Battle of Shizugatake with Katsuie. Reflecting her historical fame as a great beauty, Oichi is depicted in the light novel series as a very beautiful Yamato nadeshiko lady. Like her daughters, Oichi became fond of Makoto Kurosaka including comforting him after he felt emotionally lost from killing an enemy samurai to protect her daughters, and later aided her brother Nobunaga in matchmaking Makoto with her eldest daughter Azai Chacha. Eventually, Makoto married Chacha, thus becoming Oichi's son-in-law. Notes References Wilson, Richard L. (1985). Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743). Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas (PhD. dissertation manuscript). OCLC 19111312 Yoshikawa, Eiji. (2000). Taiko: an epic novel of war and glory in feudal Japan (William Scott Wilson, translator). Tokyo, London: Kodansha International. ; OCLC 248372298 External links Biography of Lady Oichi 1547 births 1583 deaths 16th-century Japanese people 16th-century Japanese women Oda clan Azai clan People of Sengoku-period Japan