Person1534 – 1582

Oda Nobunaga

Sengoku-era daimyo who ended the Muromachi shogunate in 1573 and won at Nagashino with massed musketeers, opening the way to unification before his death in the Honnōji Incident

Son of the Owari warlord Oda Nobuhide, he was called “the fool of Owari” for his eccentric youth. He made his name in 1560 by surprising Imagawa Yoshimoto’s large army at Okehazama, and allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1562. Taking Mino in 1567, he moved his base to Gifu and adopted the seal “rule the realm by force”. He fought the Ishiyama Hongan-ji for ten years until its surrender in 1580, and built Azuchi Castle on Lake Biwa. In 1582, attacked by Akechi Mitsuhide at the Honnōji, he took his own life amid the flames.

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1573 – 1590Unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshileader
Oda Nobunaga ended the Muromachi shogunate in 1573 and opened the way to unification with his musketeers; his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the Warring States era and unified Japan in 1590.

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537 – 1598
Unified Japan and launched the invasion of Korea

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Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning