Unfortunatly he was betrayed by one of his retainers Mitsuhide Akechi and was killed by him at Honnoji in June 1582. Probably he and his attendant Mori Ranmaru accomplished seppuku while the temple was burning.
He lived a life of continuous military conquest, and captured a third of Japan before his death in a 1582 coup.
Instead of following Nobunaga’s orders, Mitsuhide assembled his 13,000 soldiers to surround Nobunaga in Honno-ji. It seems that the mask was molded from soft clay.
He was hostile even towards his younger brother Oda Nobuyuki. It is not known what happened to Nobunaga in his last hours of life.
His remains were never found in the rubble of the temple, giving rise to a wide range of popular legends.
Although Oda Nobunaga was the legitimate heir of the Oda clan those who were part of the clan was divided against him. Nobunaga was head of the powerful Oda clan of Owari Province and launched a war against other samurai to unify Japan in the 1560s. He was the husband of Tsubasa Miyuki; and the father of Ichirō, Minato and Yuki. Oda Nobunaga was a powerful samurai daimyo warlord who initiated the unification of Japan near the end of the Warring States period. Oda Nobunaga was born during a time that is known as the The Warring Period, or the Sengoku Jidai. Sons Oda Nobutada (1557–1582) Oda Nobukatsu (1558–1630) Oda Nobutaka (1558–1583) Hashiba Hidekatsu (1567–1585) Oda Katsunaga (died 1582) Oda Nobuhide (1571–1596) Oda Nobutaka (1576–1602) Oda Nobuyoshi (1573–1615) Oda Nobusada (1574–1624) Oda Nobuyoshi (died 1609) Oda … Nobunaga Oda (Japanese: 織田 信長), also known as The Demon Lord of Japan, is one of the major antagonists in the Samurai Warriors video game series.
Oda Nobunaga and the legend of his death. Death of Oda Nobuhide. Oda Nobunaga’s Death By Akechi Mitsuhide. Nobunaga, along with his two immediate successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598 CE) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616 CE), is credited with unifying medieval Japan in the second half of the 16th century CE.
By Vince Hawkins. Oda Nobutaka (1558–1583) was the third son of the great Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga and a concubine from a low-ranking family named Sakashi.When his father and older brother were assassinated by Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnōji temple in 1582, the 24-year-old Nobutaka was away leading an invasion of Shikoku and thus survived to become the de facto head of the Oda house. The Honnō-ji Incident refers to the death, on 21 June 1582, of Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga by the forces of the traitorous Akechi Mitsuhide.
Through his childhood and early teenage years, he was well known for his bizarre behavior and received the name of Owari no Ōutsuke (尾張の大うつけ?, The Fool of Owari). If the mask dates to the 1580s, then there might be a chance the mask is original. Oda Nobunaga was born on June 23, 1534, and was given the childhood name of Kippōshi (吉法師?).
Oda Nobunaga’s Death By Akechi Mitsuhide. 16 November 2015. It has been serialized in Tokuma Shoten's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Zenon, as well as the webmagazine Web Comic Zenyon, since June 2014 and has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes.
He was able to gather a thousand men to suppress the members of his family.