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5 days ago · Yasuke (born c. 1555, Eastern Africa) was a valet and bodyguard of the Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano who rose to become a member of the inner circle of the warlord Oda Nobunaga, Japan’s first “great unifier.”
2 days ago · Tokugawa shogunate ( / ˌtɒkuːˈɡɑːwə / TOK-oo-GAH-wə; [ 17] Japanese: 徳川幕府, romanized : Tokugawa bakufu, IPA: [tokɯgawa, tokɯŋawa baꜜkɯ̥ɸɯ] ), aka the Edo shogunate (江戸幕府, Edo bakufu), was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. [ 18][ 19][ 20]
18 hours ago · Next up, are the ruins of Tamba Kameyama Castle. It was originally built in 1577 by the samurai Akechi Mitsuhide, infamous for assassinating Oda Nobunaga. The castle, perched on Mt. Arazuka overlooking the Hozu-gawa River, served as Mitsuhide’s base during his Tamba invasion.
1 day ago · This temple was founded by the ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1583 and is chiefly notable as the burial place of his predecessor Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga was a merciless military leader during the civil wars of the 16th century and is regarded as the first of three great unifiers of Japan.
2 days ago · As early as 1578, Hideyoshi, then fighting under Oda Nobunaga against Mōri Terumoto for control of the Chūgoku region, informed Terumoto of Nobunaga's plan to invade China. [69] In 1585, Hideyoshi told the Portuguese Jesuit Father Gaspar Coelho of his wish to conquer all of East Asia.
1 day ago · Oda Nobukatsu and Oda Nobutaka quarreled, causing Hideyoshi to instead choose Nobunaga's infant grandson Oda Hidenobu. [27] Having won the support of the other two Oda clan elders, Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneoki , Hideyoshi was able to distribute Nobunaga's provinces among the generals and form a council of four generals to help Hidenobu govern.
2 days ago · When, in 1560, Oda Nobunaga destroyed the Imagawa family in the Battle of Okehazama, launching him on his course of unification, Ieyasu was finally released. Ieyasu returned to Okazaki in Mikawa and brought this province under his control.
