biography
pronunciation:
[nobunahga]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1534–82)
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| biography:
| The first of the three great historical unifiers of Japan, followed by Hideyoshi and Tokugawa, born into a noble family near Nagoya, EC japan. He became a general, and was invited by the emperor to establish order in the old capital, Kyoto (1568), destroying the power of the Buddhist Church, and favouring Christianity as a counter-balance. He built Azuchi Castle, near Kyoto, as his headquarters. He was assassinated by one of his own generals, in Kyoto. |
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