![]() ![]() For his part Nobunaga may have resented the marriage to Nohime, though at their wedding he spoke highly of her. Nobuhide had clearly preferred his eldest son Nobuhiro, but as an illegitimate son couldn’t inherit he was forced to declare Nobunaga his heir. The second was his dislike of his father, which drove him to act outrageously. The first was his lack of respect for tradition, something that would actually serve him well later in life. Nobunaga’s reputation for foolishness appears to have come from two sources. A painting of Nobunaga drawn by the Jesuit priest Giovanni Nicolao shortly after his death. Her new husband had by that time gained infamy as “the great fool of Owari province”. On paper this was a very advantageous marriage for Nohime, but in practice she may have regretted he father’s choice. In 1547 Dosan defeated Nobuhide in battle, and as a result of this Nobuhide was forced to marry Nobunaga to Dosan’s daughter Nohime to seal a peace treaty. His great rival was Saito Dosan, the lord (”daimyo”) of Mino Province to the north. Nobuhide sought to solidify that dominion and take the whole province, though he never quite succeeded in that. ![]() The clan had historically been the vassals of a more powerful clan, the Shiba, but eighty years earlier they had declared their independence (though they still owed the Shiba nominal fealty) and taken over most of the small province of Owari as their lands. He was his father Nobuhide’s second son, but his elder brother Nobuhiro was illegitimate. Nobunaga was born the heir to the Oda clan in 1534. ![]()
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