[Most days, Nobunaga is okay with his plan to never go back to Japan now. It would end his journey, send him back to the part of his own timeline that would be "stuck" there, and his desire to see that through is minimal when he can envision the future well enough from his actions and other people's multiple timelines that he helped shape. Sometimes though he misses it and the pain of longing sets in.]

What part of Japan are you from? What year?

[Asked in the heavily formal and mildly haughty (accidentally) 16th century (Tenth year of the tenshu) language Nobunaga was born into.]

[He points to the Oda clan kamon on his shoulder (though he's got... 4 more where that came from!] Oda Nobuanga, Tenth year of the Tenshu. Don't be startled if we're centuries apart, but it's been a long time since any Japanese carrying katana washed upon these shores. [Poetic metaphor, obviously.]