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Nobunaga agreed to install Yoshiaki as the new shogun and, grasping the opportunity to enter Kyoto, started his campaign.
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Nobunaga and agreed
Another possible motive is for revenge as Akechi Mitsuhide's mother ( or perhaps aunt ) was killed because Nobunaga had gone against a peace treaty that he had previously agreed to.
Nobunaga agreed and so Takechiyo ( now nine ) was taken as a hostage to Sumpu.
Nobunaga and Yoshiaki
In 1568, Ashikaga Yoshiaki went to Gifu to ask Nobunaga to start a campaign toward Kyoto.
This was a relief for Nobunaga because he could now focus on Yoshiaki, who had openly declared hostility more than once, despite the imperial court's intervention.
* August 27 – Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.
Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun.
When the shogun Yoshiteru was assassinated in 1565, an ambitious daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, seized the opportunity and installed Yoshiteru's brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun.
The Ashikaga shogunate was finally destroyed in 1573 when Nobunaga drove Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.
The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga.
Failure to enter Kyoto and gain recognition from the imperial court, however, had left the succession in doubt, and a group of bakufu retainers led by Hosokawa Fujitaka negotiated with Nobunaga to gain support for Yoshiteru's younger brother, Yoshiaki.
The power of the Ashikaga was effectively destroyed on August 27, 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.
* 1568 – Oda Nobunaga sets Yoshiaki up as shogun.
Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shogun.
In 1568 Oda Nobunaga, with the figurehead Yoshiaki, attacked Hisahide.
Before serving Nobunaga, Mitsuhide had served Ashikaga Yoshiaki after Asakura Yoshikage.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was once strongly supported in his claim to become Shogun by Nobunaga, but turned to the ikki when their relationship soured.
In 1568, when Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto in support of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Ikeda Katsumasa battled against him, as part of the Miyoshi clan.
After the capture of Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshiaki appointed Yoshikage regent and requested Asakura aid in driving Nobunaga out of the capital.
Nobunaga and new
Additionally, Nobunaga was very interested in European culture which was still very new to Japan.
Instrumental in the rise of the new bakufu was Tokugawa Ieyasu, the main beneficiary of the achievements of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Despite the strong reputation of Takeda's samurai cavalry, Oda Nobunaga embraced the relatively new technology of the Arquebus, and inflicted a crushing defeat.
* 1564 ( Eiroku 7 ): Oda Nobunaga completed the conquest of Mino ; and he built a new castle at Gifu.
* 1564 ( Eiroku 7 ): Nobunaga completed the conquest of Mino ; and he built a new castle at Gifu.
As Oda Nobunaga rose to power at the end of the 1560s, the monks of Enryaku-ji regained their military might, and fought a number of skirmishes in the streets of Kyoto against a new rival sect, Nichiren Buddhism.
In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, having become Kampaku ( Imperial regent ), ordered a new sword hunt ; Hideyoshi, like Nobunaga, sought to solidify separations in the class structure, denying commoners weapons while allowing them to the nobles, the samurai class.
King Seonjo faced many difficulties dealing with both new threats, sending many skilled military commanders to the northern front, while contending with Japanese leaders Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu in the south.
Nobunaga and shogun
Nobunaga refused the post of Kanrei and eventually began to restrict the powers of the shogun, making it clear that he intended to use him as a facade to justify his future conquests.
Like Nobunaga before him, Hideyoshi never achieved the title of shogun.
Oda Nobunaga and Uesugi Kenshin were among the many daimyo and samurai who travelled to Kyoto to pay their respects to the shogun.
Nobunaga and opportunity
Nobunaga, who had prepared over a period of years for just such an opportunity by establishing an alliance with the Azai clan in northern Ōmi Province and then conquering the neighboring province of Mino Province, now marched toward Kyoto.
Mitsuhide saw an opportunity to act, when not only was Nobunaga resting in Honnō-ji and unprepared for an attack, but all the other major daimyo and the bulk of Nobunaga's army were occupied in other parts of the country.
Nobunaga and Kyoto
* 1582 – Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
Within a short amount of time, Nobunaga had reached Kyoto and driven the Miyoshi clan out of the city.
En route to Chūgoku region, Nobunaga stayed at Honnō-ji, a temple in Kyoto.
Oda Nobunaga was well on his way to the complete conquest and unification of Japan when Akechi Mitsuhide, one of his generals, forced Nobunaga into committing suicide in Honnō-ji in Kyoto.
Ieyasu remained an ally of Oda Nobunaga and his Mikawa soldiers were part of Nobunaga's army which captured Kyoto in 1568.
* 1568: The daimyō Oda Nobunaga enters Kyoto and ends the civil war
Even after Shingen's death, there remained several daimyo powerful enough to resist Nobunaga, but none were situated close enough to Kyoto to pose a threat politically, and it appeared that unification under the Oda banner was a matter of time.
Nobunaga, making a stop-over in Kyoto on his way west with only a small contingent of guards, was attacked by one of his own disaffected generals, Akechi Mitsuhide.
* 1568: Nobunaga enters Kyoto, marking the beginning of the Azuchi – Momoyama period
The authority of the Imperial Court also began to fall, but this trend reversed after Oda Nobunaga entered Kyoto in a show of allegiance to the Emperor but which also indicated that the Emperor had the support of the Oda clan.
In the same month, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto.
Nobunaga captured Kyoto in November and Hisahide was forced to surrender.
The Hosokawa remained in Kyoto for roughly one hundred years, fleeing the city when it was attacked by Oda Nobunaga.
Now located in Inuyama in Aichi, this tea house was built in Kyoto in 1618 by Urakusai, the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga, and was moved to its present location in 1972.
* 1582-Mitsuhide Akechi raised his army in Kameoka to assassinate Nobunaga Oda and Nobutada Oda in Kyoto: The Incident at Honnō-ji
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