![]() Though Oda was recognized as Nobuhide's legitimate successor, the Oda clan was divided into many factions, and the entire clan was technically subservient to Owari's true kanrei (feudal lord), Shiba Yoshimune. This was a blow to Oda, who lost a mentor and a valuable retainer, and who later built a temple to honor Hirate. Shamed by Oda Nobunaga's behavior, Hirate Masahide, one of his loyal retainers, committed seppuku (ritual suicide). This act alienated many Oda clan retainers, convincing them of Oda Nobunaga's supposed mediocrity and lack of discipline, and they began to side with his more soft-spoken and well-mannered brother, Nobuyuki. In 1551, Oda Nobuhide died unexpectedly, and during his funeral, Oda Nobunaga was said to have acted outrageously, throwing the ceremonial incense at the altar. In 1549, Oda succeeded to his father’s estate and soon overpowered both his own relatives and the ruling family of the province. ![]() Oda Nobunaga was born Oda Kichihoshi on June 23, 1534, the son of Oda Nobuhide, an insignificant warlord and a daimyo, with some land holdings in Owari province, near present-day Nagoya, who had amassed wealth and a force of military retainers. Life of Oda Nobunaga Unification of Owari Province Out of this political chaos, a new group of barons, known as daimyos, established and ruled over autonomous regional “states.” Starting in the 1550s, the more powerful of these daimyo began to vie among themselves to unify Japan again under a single government. The period from 1477 until the end of the Ashikaga shogunate in 1573 is known in Japanese history as the Age of Provincial Wars, an era when warlords and their retainers fought one another all over Japan in an effort to establish and expand their territories. Between 14, a power struggle among the vassal lords of the shogunate weakened its central governance, and the Ashikaga shogunate became almost as ineffectual as the imperial court, which had lost its political power to provincial warlords during the twelfth century. In 1336, Ashikaga Takauji established the Ashikaga shogunate in Kyoto near the imperial court, and attempted to impose the control of his shogunate over a wide area extending outward from the central provinces of Honshu. He also welcomed Christian Jesuit missionaries to Japan, and was a patron of the arts in Japan. He reorganized the economy by establishing castle towns as centers for manufacturing, and many of his ideas were adopted by the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the first Japanese warlord to incorporate firearms in his battle strategy. He met an untimely death in 1582 when he was betrayed by one of his generals.Īutocratic and ambitious, Oda was quick to take advantage of opportunity and introduced many innovations both on the battlefield and in the economic and political structure of his domain. Aided by his general Hideyoshi Toyotomi and his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda unified all Japan except the extreme north and west. Oda established Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kyoto as the fifteenth Ashikaga shogun but used him as a puppet to consolidate his control over central Japan. In 1568, the ousted Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭), requested Oda’s help to drive the Miyoshi clan out of Kyoto. ![]() In 1560, he established his reputation by using ingenuity to overcome the much larger forces of a powerful neighboring daimyo, Imagawa Yoshimoto. Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長 original name Kichihoshi, later Saburo) (J– June 21, 1582) was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, and one of the three great founders of the united Tokugawa shogunate.īorn the son of an insignificant daimyo in Owari province, near present-day Nagoya, Oda quickly brought the domain under his control.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |