Oda Nobunaga
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Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese samurai and daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the Tenka-bito and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He i
Portrait of Oda Nobunaga (1583, in Chōkō-ji, Important Cultural Property)
Portrait of Oda Nobunaga in colour on silk (1583, in Kobe City Museum, Important Cultural Property)
Site of Nagoya Castle (那古野城跡)
Statue of Oda Nobunaga at Kiyosu Castle
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the t
Oda Nobunaga
…influential figure in Japanese history and is regarded as one of the three great unifiers of Japan, along with his retainers, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Nobunaga paved the way for the successful reigns of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu by consolidating power, as head of the very powerful Oda clan, through a…
Portrait by Kanō Tan'yū
Tokugawa Ieyasu kao
Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu
ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Batogahara between Tokugawa clan against Ikkō-ikki movement in 1563–1564.