Sunday, February 22, 2015

Nobunaga Oda

Nobunaga Oda
Oda's family crest




Nobunaga Oda , warlords through Azuchi Momoyama period from the Sengoku period.
It is said one of the Sengoku Period of the three heroes.

He was born in Owari (current Aichi Prefecture).
Nobunaga's father called a name Nobuhide and was a general likewise.

When Nobunaga was young, he did strange appearance by preference,And a lot of coarse behavior.
Therefore it had a good reputation of a great fool, and there was a person who gets away from Nobunaga for a vassal of Oda family and a clan, too.

Dosan Saito's daughter, Nouhime and political marriage in 1548 year (around 15 years old) Mino country.
He succeeds to birthright by death of Nobuhide in 1551. (at the age of 18 years old)

Nobunaga has killed Nobuyuki Oda of his younger brother who was a root of a Internal troubles in 1557.And Owari was suppressed in the next year.

In 1557,Nobunaga made rapid progress after he killed Yoshimoto Imagawa by a fight of the pail interval.(Battle of Okehazama)

1567 (at the age of 34 years old), Nagamasa Asai and the alliance of the Oomi country.
And younger sister's Oichi is sent to Nagamasa Asai's lawful wife.

He obeyed Yoshiaki Ashikaga and went up to Kyoto by Akechi Mitsuhide's agency.
But Nobunaga banished Yoshiaki Ashikaga and destroyed Muromachi shogunate government actually later.

Nobunaga goes to the Yoshikage Asakura attack of the Echizen country which does not obey a visit to the capital order, but runs back by betrayal of Nagamasa Asai of the Oomi country which is a brother-in-law to Kyoto.
In the case, Hashiba Hideyoshi (Toyotomi) applied for the rear guard personally and made them succeed.

Nobunaga returned to Gifu, arranged armaments, fought around Anegawa of Yoshikage Asakura, Nagamasa Asai and Northern Omi again and won in 1570

Shingen Takeda started a visit to the capital war in 1572.
Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu army in the competition in Mikatagahara, and Owari falls in a crisis
However, the crisis was avoided by Shingen Takeda's death due to sickness next year.

Banished the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to Kawachi Province.(Muromachi Shogunate downfall)

Asai Nagamasa was caused committed suicide with, the battle of Odani castle and controlled Oomi country.
Three daughters escaped safely with the Oichi of the younger sister of Nobunaga who had been marrying the Nagamasa.

Nobunaga was great victory in Katsuyori Takeda of Kai country in the war of Nagashino in 1575.
 ( around the time of 42 years old )

The Azuchi Castle construction of a castle was started to Omi in 1576, and it was considered as the castle where a feudal lord usually resides.

He centralized power around Kyoto.
And held other powerful feudal lords in check and led at the end of the world of war disturbances.
But before unifying the whole country on June 21, 1582 Nobunaga was betrayed by Akechi Mitsuhide of a subordinate, and committed suicide at Honno-ji.

Nobunaga was 49 years old.

After this, Hashiba Hideyoshi (Toyotomi) avenged Nobunaga in Yamasaki's war.
And, Hideyoshi succeeded the power of the Oda family, and accomplished the whole country union.



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