Oda Nobunaga

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Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four districts. As the lord of Nagoya Castle, he had the power to compete with daimyo of neighboring provinces. He made peace with Saito Dosan (neighboring daimyo) by marrying Nobunaga to Dosan's daughter. Nobuhide's abrupt death from a disease in 1551 left Nobunaga to fill his shoes at the age of seventeen. At his father's funeral, he grabbed a handful of incense and threw it at the mortuary tablet. This kind of strange behavior earned him a reputation as a "great idiot" (outsuke) and worried many people of his future. Already, Imagawa Yoshimoto of Mikawa, Totomi, and Suruga had made inroads into Chita District from the East. From the West, Hattori Sakyo, the leader of the powerful Buddhist Jodo Shin Sect (True Pure Land sect) had invaded much of the Ama District. The other two lower districts of ...

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future Tokugawa Ieyasu) in 1562 to protect himself from further attacks from the east while he attempted to spread his influence westward.
To the west was Mino, controlled by Saito Dosan's grandson Saito Tatsuoki. He repeatedly encroached on Mino and eventually managed to defeat Tatsuoki, but it was not a quick, easy victory as the first one may have felt. He moved his headquarters form Kiyosu to Komaki in the winter of 1564-65 in order to be closer to his operations. Year-long military pressure and the continuous erosion of the Saito vassalage led to Nobunaga's triumph. Tatsuoki escaped to Ise. He acquired his second province after Owari.
Nobunaga was not known as an "outsuke", ...

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