11 Facts About Oda Nobutaka

Oda Nobutaka was a samurai and member of the Oda clan.

Oda Nobutaka was adopted as the head of the Kanbe clan, which ruled the middle region of Ise Province and so he was called Kanbe Nobutaka.

Nobutaka was born as the third son of Oda Nobunaga and he was called San Shichi, possibly because he was born on the seventh day of the third month, in the Japanese lunar calendar system.

In 1568, after Nobunaga controlled Ise Province, Nobutaka was installed as the head of the Kanbe clan, whose seat was Kanbe Castle, near present-day Suzuka, Mie.

Oda Nobutaka was reported by missionaries to have a better character than the older Nobukatsu but was ranked lower and held less territory than he did.

In 1582, Oda Nobutaka was commanded to lead an army against Shikoku and had such retainers as Niwa Nagahide and Tsuda Nobuzumi, who was the son of Nobunaga's younger brother Nobuyuki, under his command.

Oda Nobutaka turned back and at Osaka, killed Nobusumi, who was married to a daughter of Mitsuhide.

Oda Nobutaka then joined Hashiba Hideyoshi who had turned back from his own campaign, and they fought the Akechi forces at the Battle of Yamazaki.

Nobutaka gained Mino Province where the eldest son, Oda Nobutada, had ruled before his death by Mitsuhide, but this was still far short of what he had hoped to gain.

In 1583, he later allied with Shibata Katsuie and Takigawa Kazumasu to start a war against Hideyoshi, but while Oda Nobutaka was surrounded at Gifu Castle by Nobukatsu, Katsuie lost the Battle of Shizugatake.

Oda Nobutaka was sent to Daimidoji at Noma, Chita county, in Owari Province where Minamoto no Yoshitomo had been assassinated at the end of the Heian period.