After a number of victories against the Miyoshi, the tides turned; Yoshikata and his Hosokawa allies in service of the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru began to experience a string of defeats.

In 1568, Oda Nobunaga, in the service of shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki, asked the Rokkaku to join his army, and was refused.

Defeated in the ensuing battle, the Rokkaku were driven from their castle, settling in Kōka, their clan effectively eliminated as daimyō.

During the Sengoku period, Japan's social and legal culture evolved in ways unrelated to the well-known history of serial battles and armed skirmishes.

Few examples of these daimyo-made law codes have survived, but the legal framework contrived by the Rokkaku clan remains amongst the small number of documents which can still be studied: Works cited