Siege of Itami (1579)
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The second siege of Itami Castle, also called the siege of Arioka Castle during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, occurred in 1579, five years after it was seized by Oda Nobunaga in Siege of Ita
The placement of Araki forces around Itami, drawn in 1865, now housed in the Itami Prefectural Museum
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
Siege of Itami (1579)
…also called the siege of Arioka Castle (有岡城の戦い) during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, occurred in 1579, five years after it was seized by Oda Nobunaga in Siege of Itami (1574) from the Itami clan, and entrusted the Castle to Araki Murashige. In October of 1578, during the siege of Miki, Araki Murashige…
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