PJDeluhery
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Well it's cold and rainy here today, so time for more photos of our dislpay. This one is Oda Nobunaga's camp. Figures are by East of India. I just LOVE this display.
Here's a bit on Oda from our display DVD script:
Three samurai are responsible for unifying Japan. The first was Oda Nobunaga who was an ambitious man from a rural area of commoner lineage but possessed great fighting ability. Beginning in 1568, he would achieve this through a combination of military might, fear and arranged marriages. He used his military might to inspire fear and defeat Dimyo who would not submit to him. He arranged marriages to seal negotiated settlements and used fear and intimidation to threaten Dimyo to submit to him without fighting. He was also an early advocate of firearms, and developed a style employing successive vollies of fire behind a picket barrier, much like what would be used during the Napoleonic era. During one battle Oda employed 3000 gunners in such a fashion. In 1582 Oda was assassinated by one of his own generals (it is thought over a dispute about the general’s compensation). By that time, he had united roughly one third of the warlords in Japan under him.
Following Oda’s death, Toyotomi Hideoshi took power from Oda’s minor son. Hideoshi is the second great unifier of Japan. He picked up where Oda left off and, using similar methods, by 1590 all the Dimyo were under Hideoshi’s control. In September, 1598 Hideoshi died at age 62, and his right hand man, Torkugowa Ieyasu, assumed power. Ieyasu is the third unifier of Japan. Ieyasu consolidated Hideoshi’s power, and fought the battle of Sekigahara “the battle in the fog,” which ended any remaining resistance.
Now the photos:
Here's a bit on Oda from our display DVD script:
Three samurai are responsible for unifying Japan. The first was Oda Nobunaga who was an ambitious man from a rural area of commoner lineage but possessed great fighting ability. Beginning in 1568, he would achieve this through a combination of military might, fear and arranged marriages. He used his military might to inspire fear and defeat Dimyo who would not submit to him. He arranged marriages to seal negotiated settlements and used fear and intimidation to threaten Dimyo to submit to him without fighting. He was also an early advocate of firearms, and developed a style employing successive vollies of fire behind a picket barrier, much like what would be used during the Napoleonic era. During one battle Oda employed 3000 gunners in such a fashion. In 1582 Oda was assassinated by one of his own generals (it is thought over a dispute about the general’s compensation). By that time, he had united roughly one third of the warlords in Japan under him.
Following Oda’s death, Toyotomi Hideoshi took power from Oda’s minor son. Hideoshi is the second great unifier of Japan. He picked up where Oda left off and, using similar methods, by 1590 all the Dimyo were under Hideoshi’s control. In September, 1598 Hideoshi died at age 62, and his right hand man, Torkugowa Ieyasu, assumed power. Ieyasu is the third unifier of Japan. Ieyasu consolidated Hideoshi’s power, and fought the battle of Sekigahara “the battle in the fog,” which ended any remaining resistance.
Now the photos:
