Oda Nobunaga's battle-fan

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Oda Nobunaga's crucifix-shaped candlestick; he collected a lot of such things that caucasian Catholic priests brought for him from Portugal, Spain, and Italy. They didn't mean anything but curious goods to him. Don't assume that he was 'interested in Christianity'.

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Oda Nobunaga's clock. It doesn't tell time the way universal clocks of today do; the 16th century Japanese way of telling time is (just in case you haven't noticed) maddening to 21st-centurian creatures -- "No, don't come by at the hour of the snake," your buddy would have said in Oda Nobunaga's days; "I won't be home until the third of the hour of the ox!"

 

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