Three unites

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Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tokugawa Ieyasu

The three unified empires ( Japanese 三 San , San'eiketsu , literally "three heroes") are the three generals who ended the era of the warring empires and the premodern Japan of the Edo- era in a succession through coups d'etat, armed conflicts, diplomacy and assassination. Created time . A centralized, unitary state replaced a decentralized feudal social order.

These men were Oda Nobunaga , his general and vassal Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and their devoted ally Tokugawa Ieyasu .

They met at the Battle of Okehazama and then rose in influence. Oda, who took the capital in a kind of coup d'état in 1568, was a daimyo from the area around what is now Nagoya and a descendant of the Taira , who had been defeated by the Minamoto at the end of the Heian period . In order to realize their plans, they had to face all powerful Sengoku daimyo and their alliances, for example the three-pact between the Imagawa , Takeda and the later Hōjō in the east and a similar alliance in the west.

Oda Nobunaga broke, it is said, the stones necessary to build the state, Hideyoshi worked them, and Ieyasu put them together.

See also

literature

  • AL Sadler : The maker of modern Japan: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu , Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle 1981, ISBN 0-8048-1297-7 .
  • Conrad Totman: Tokugawa Ieyasu, shogun: a biography , San Francisco: Heian International, 1983, ISBN 0893462101 .
  • Willem Jan Boot: "The death of a shogun: deification in early modern Japan", In John Breen and Mark Teeuwen (eds.), Shinto in History - Ways of the Kami , Curzon, London 2000, ISBN 0-7007-1172- 4 , pp. 144-166.
  • Eiji Yoshikawa : Taiko. A. Knaus Verlag, Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-8135-0303-8 .
  • Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Bibliotheek / Belgisch Historich Instituut Te Rome) . Hotei Publishing, 2001. ISBN 90-74822-22-3 (in English).
  • Kuno Knöbl: The Samurai.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oai.de/en/49-ostasienlexikon/ddd/1172-die-drei-reichseiniger.html , accessed on December 30, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.japan-photo.de/momoyama.htm , accessed on December 30, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.univie.ac.at/rel_jap/hachimanopedia/Azuchi-Momoyama-Zeit , accessed on December 30, 2014
  4. ↑ http://proxer.me/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga
  5. ↑ Peter Pantzer: Samurai. TESSLOFF Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-788-60636-7 , p. 13 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan", by Richard Bowring and Peter Kornicki, ISBN 0-521-40352-9 , Cambridge University Press, page 65, right-hand side from the second paragraph