Oda nobunaga biography base

Oda Nobunaga (織田 信長; original name Kichihoshi, later Saburo) (June 23, – June 21, ) was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, and one of the three great founders of the united Tokugawa shogunate.

Born the son of an insignificant daimyo in Owari province, near present-day Nagoya, Oda quickly brought the domain under his control.

Oda nobunaga biography base

In , he established his reputation by using ingenuity to overcome the much larger forces of a powerful neighboring daimyo, Imagawa Yoshimoto. In , the ousted Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭), requested Oda’s help to drive the Miyoshi clan out of Kyoto.

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 he ended the Ashikaga shogunate. Aided by his general Hideyoshi Toyotom