Biography of Oda Nobunaga
Name: Oda Nobunaga
Birth Date: 1534
Death Date: 1582
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: warrior
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) was a Japanese warrior chieftain who undertook the first stage in the military unification of Japan in the later 16th century after nearly a hundred years of disorder and disunion.From the time of its founding in 1336 the shogunate (military government) of the Ashikaga family exercised at least theoretical military overlordship of medieval Japan. The first great leader of the Ashikaga, Takauji, established his headquarters in Kyoto near the imperial court and attempted to impose shogunate control over as wide an area as possible extending outward from the central provinces of Honshu.But, as the result of a great struggle among the vassal barons of the shogunate from 1467 to 1477, this hegemony was completely destroyed. Although the shogunate was not abolished, it exercised little more central governance during the next century than the imperial court, which had been largely deprived of its ruling powers by the rise of the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…age of 48 undoubtedly deprived him of a greater place in Japanese history than he actually holds. Hideyoshi and Tokugawa leyasu, who took command of the country after Hideyoshi's death in 1598 and established the great Tokugawa shogunate, are rightfully regarded as the two most significant figures of this heroic age of unification. Yet it should not be forgotten that both were the beneficiaries of the outstanding achievements of Nobunaga. Further Reading There is no biography of Nobunaga in English, but good accounts of his rise to power are in Sir George Bailey Sansom, A History of Japan (3 vols., 1958-1963), and John Whitney Hall, Government and Local Power in Japan, 500 to 1700 (1966). Two other works that deal specifically with Europeans and Christianity in Japan but are also excellent general sources for the period of unification are Charles R. Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650 (1951; rev. ed. 1967), and Michael Cooper, ed., They Came to Japan (1965).
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