Biographies of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu

COMPLETE BIOGRAPHIES OF ODA NOBUNAGA
TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI & TOKUGAWA IEYASU

Popular Profile & Summary of Bio Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu

NOTE #1: Before getting anywhere in this bio, I assume that you have gotten the background mental snapshot that Oda Nobunaga descended from Oda Chikazane, who was previously known as Taira Chikazane. Their first DNA-bearer was Lord Taira Sukemori. Click here for history and pictures of the Taira clan.

NOTE #2: Also starring Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu because their bios obviously can't get separated from Oda Nobunaga's. They even grew up in the same era, in three different ways. Oda Nobunaga's reign (1568-1582) was like a blockbuster, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's (1583-1599) was a series of variety shows, Tokugawa Ieyasu's (1603-1616) was all news broadcast of the Soviet Union TV in 1970's -- but the three's biographies were intertwined, and each couldn't really get seen independently without too many and too long footnotes about the rest of the trio.

NOTE #3: Co-stars include Oda Nobuhide (1510-1549), Oda Nagamasu (1548-1622), Oda Nobuharu (1549-1570), Oda Nobuhiro (died in 1574), Oda Nobukane (1548-1614), Oda Nobuyuki (died in 1557), Oda Nobutsumi (1555-1583), Oda Nobutada (1557-1582), Oda Nobutaka (1558-1583), Oda Nobuo (1558-1630), Oda Hidekatsu (1573-1610), Oda Katsunaga (1568-1582), Oda Hidenobu (1581-1602). There were no more than four generations of Nobunaga's Odas that got somewhat involved in the shaping of Japan into what it was when Tokugawa took control. The subsequent Odas were either no direct descendants of THE Oda, or they weren't to be found where national issues happened to be.

Oda Nobunaga's Family Tree: Click Here

NOTE #3: Unless it can't be avoided, I will refer to everybody by one single name each time around.

NOTE #4: Japanese words that are unpronounceable to you anyway will be scanty, unless untranslatable and thus force me to use them instead of the anglicized equivalents.

NOTE #5: You will never find any Princess here. Tokugawa Ieyasu's most-famous grand-daughter, for instance, who is referred to as 'Princess Sen' everywhere else, is not here. What I have here is Lady Sen. Tokugawa wasn't a king. So was the case with every other warlord's wives, concubines, moms, aunts and daughters. 'Princess' will only be used whenever I refer to the Emperor's daughters or daughters in-law.

Do you know that there was another warlord in Japan whose name was also NOBUNAGA?
(And that his family members were also named the same as Oda Nobunaga's family?)

J O I N T-----B I O G R A P H I E S-----O F

ODA NOBUNAGA TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI TOKUGAWA IEYASU

From Oda's birth in 1534 to the definite start of Tokugawa shogunate, 1615

	N A G O Y A 1534 - 1545 Pic: Oda Nobunaga at 15 years old in anime movie, and the Nagoya castle in Aichi today	Oda Nobunaga's B O Y H O O D CLICKABLE: Pix of Nagoya Castle

	N A G O Y A K I Y O S U 1546 - 1560 Pic: Oda Nobunaga at 17 years old by actor Kimura Takuya, and the Kiyosu castle in Aichi today	Oda Nobunaga's T E E N S CLICKABLE: Pix of Kiyosu \| Kimura Takuya

	K O M A K I G I F U 1561 - 1570 Pic: Oda Nobunaga in his twenties by actor Sorimachi Takashi, and the Gifu castle today	Oda Nobunaga's T W E N T I E S CLICKABLE: Pix of Gifu \| Sorimachi Takashi

	G I F U A Z U C H I 1570 - 1582 Pic: Oda Nobunaga at 36 years old by actor Ryu Daisuke, and the Azuchi castle in anime movie	Oda Nobunaga's T H I R T I E S F O R T I E S CLICKABLE: Pix of Gifu \| Daisuke Ryu

	A Z U C H I K Y O T O K I Y O S U 1582 - 1615 Pic: Statue of Oda Nobunaga at the Kiyosu castle today, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's banner	A F T E R Oda Nobunaga's D E A T H Toyotomi Hideyoshi \| Akechi Mitsuhide