Nobunaga Oda (織田 信長) is one of the three unifiers of the Warring States period along with his former generals, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa. Until his untimely demise, Nobunaga is widely considered to have had controlled most of Japan as on
Nobunaga realizes that factors of generals she considered her enemies had become mixed up in the Servants when they were summoned. After Romani reports that a particle is contaminating the Servants, the group is ambushed by Shimazu Setanta, Chousokabe Emichika, and Mouri Medinari. However, ...
The Oda clan (織田氏, Oda-shi) was a family of Japanese daimyo who were to become an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they had the climax of their fame under Oda Nobunaga and fell from the spotlight soon after, several...
This victory greatly increased Nobunaga’s power and, just as importantly, weakened his enemies. Not only did he defeat the Imagawa, but the further result was a breakdown in alliances among that clan and others who were aligned against Nobunaga. The Aggressor Next, Nobunaga turned his ambitions...
Unlike Nobunaga, who was nicknamed the Fool of Owari, Nobukatsu was known to be intelligent even in his youth, and his mother, Dota Gozen, adored him. It was believed that he would be the next head of the Oda family. Nobukatsu eventually came to believe that he was the true heir of...
The Oda family was beset by enemies from all sides and riven by clan divisions when Nobunaga succeeded his father Nobuhide in 1551. Over the next several years, despite a reputation for erratic and outrageous behavior, Nobunaga gradually eliminated challengers for authority within his clan and ...
Yasuke was a valet and bodyguard of the Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano who rose to become a member of the inner circle of Japan’s first “great unifier,” the warlord Oda Nobunaga. Yasuke is commonly held by Japanese historians to be the first r