Oda Nobunaga

(born 1534, Owari province, Japan—died June 21, 1582, Kyōto) With Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the three unifiers of premodern Japan. He brought the domain of his birth, Owari, under his control and followed that success by defeating the huge forces of a neighbouring daimyo. In 1562 he formed an alliance with Ieyasu, and together they captured Kyōto, which Nobunaga controlled from 1573, thereby ending the Ashikaga shogunate (see Muromachi period). He then turned his attention to crushing the militant Tendai Buddhist monks of Enryaku temple, destroying their headquarters in 1571. He spent the next decade fighting the fanatically religious Ikkō sect, defeating their fortress-monastery in Omacrsaka in 1580. His efforts to weaken the strength of the Buddhist temples extended to permitting Jesuit missionaries to build a church in Kyōto; his own interest in Christianity was purely political. In 1582 he had conquered central Japan and was attempting to extend his control over western Japan when he was wounded by a discontented general and committed suicide.

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Oda may refer to:

• Oda, is a room within harem especially in the Ottoman Empire
• Oda, a Turkish literary magazine
• Oda, a German slang-word for "or"
• The Oda clan, a Japanese feudal clan from the Sengoku period
• A Norwegian female given name

Places

• Oda, Shimane, a city in Japan
• Oda, Ghana
• Out of Door Academy, a school in Sarasota, Florida
• 1144 Oda, an asteroid

People

• Oda the Severe, Archbishop of Canterbury (942-59)
• Bev Oda, Canadian politician
• Saint Oda

Oda is also a Japanese family name

• Eiichirō Oda, a manga artist, author of One Piece
• Kazumasa Oda, a singer-songwriter
• Shigeru Oda, a judge on the International Court of Justice
• Sophie Tamiko Oda, American actress
• Toshinori Oda, a character in Battle Royale
• Yuji Oda, an actor
• Oda Nobunaga, a major daimyo during the Japanese Sengoku period
• Nobunari Oda, a figure skater and descendant of Oda Nobunaga

Science

• ODA, the O'Doherty-Anstey theory of wave propagation in randomly-layered media

See also

• ODA (abbreviation disambiguation page)
• ODA (Official Development Aid- international relations)