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Oda clan mon (Japanese emblem). Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長, [oda nobɯ(ꜜ)naɡa] ⓘ; 23 June 1534 – 21 June 1582) was a Japanese daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods.
An ukiyo-e by Yoshitoshi depicting Nobunaga fighting in the Honnō-ji Incident.. The Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変, Honnō-ji no Hen) was the assassination of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto on 21 June 1582 (2nd day of the sixth month, Tenshō 10).
Oda Nobuhide, a daimyo with significant influence in southern Owari, died on April 8, 1551, after a short contagious illness. His heir, Oda Nobunaga, who was barely 18 at the time, inherited a large feudal domain around Nagoya Castle, but he enjoyed generally bad reputation amongst the people of Owari for his eccentric and rude public behavior.
In 1582, Oda Nobunaga was the most powerful warlord in Japan. Known as the first Great Unifier, Nobunaga ended a period of mass civil war and restored the island nation to one unified system of power.
Nobunaga's son, Oda Nobutada, fled the scene, but was surrounded at Nijō Shin Gosho , a fortified imperial villa near today's Nijō Castle, and killed. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Despite not killing Nobunaga personally, Mitsuhide claimed responsibility for his death.
After Takeda Shingen's death, he fell out with Oda Nobunaga and destroyed the Noto Hatakeyama clan, which was close to Nobunaga, at the Siege of Nanao in 1577, pacifying Noto Province. He then defeated Oda Nobunaga's forces at the Battle of Tedorigawa. However, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1578 at the young age of 49. [28] [29]
Nobunaga eventually defeats his familial rivals to reaffirm his control over the Oda and Owari Province. Nobunaga's prodigious battle strategy and tactics lead his clan to defeating the much large and powerful Imagawa clan that resulted in the death of the daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto at the Battle of Okehazama. Nobunaga's victory gains him two ...
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