1. Sakuma Nobumori was a Samurai retainer of Oda Nobuhide.
16 Facts About Sakuma Nobumori
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Sakuma Nobumori was treated as Oda Nobunaga's most important retainer and would come to fight in every important battle under Nobunaga's command such as the 1567 Siege of Inabayama Castle, the 1571 and 1573 Siege of Nagashima.
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Sakuma Nobumori was born in what is Minami-ku, Nagoya and served under Oda Nobuhide.
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In 1547, Sakuma Nobumori fight at the Battle of Kanoguchi againts Saito Dosan.
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In 1548, Sakuma Nobumori took part in the second Battle of Azukizaka against Imagawa clan.
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In 1555, Sakuma Nobumori took part in the Battle of Ino, againts Oda Nobunaga, older brother of Nobuyuki.
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In 1571, Sakuma Nobumori fought against the Ikko-ikki rebellion in the Sieges of Nagashima.
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Sakuma Nobumori set fire and burnt down Enryakuji at the Siege of Mount Hiei.
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In 1576, after Harada Naomasa's death during the campaign against the heavily fortified and well-supplied Honganji temple in Osaka, Sakuma Nobumori was chosen as Harada's replacement as commander of the Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji and given troops from seven provinces placing him in command of the largest Oda-clan army among the Oda retainers.
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However, unlike his colleagues Akechi Mitsuhide, Shibata Katsuie or Hashiba Hideyoshi who all won battles on the fronts to which they were assigned, Sakuma Nobumori made no progress against the Buddhist zealots.
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That same year, Nobunaga drafted a document containing a nineteen-point accusation against Sakuma Nobumori, including past failures against the Honganji.
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The man who came to lead the largest force in the Kinki area after Sakuma Nobumori's banishment was Akechi Mitsuhide, and along with the severe human affairs which brought unrest to the vassals, this banishment was often said to be linked to Nobunaga's death at the Honnoji Incident.
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Sakuma Nobumori was posthumously named Doumu Keigan and Souyu.
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Sakuma Nobumori's banishment has widely been regarded as representative of Nobunaga's cold-blooded treatment against even his longest-serving retainers underscoring the clan leader's shortcomings as a military commander.
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Sakuma Nobumori had reportedly held frequent tea parties and seemed more interested in these rather than focusing on military affairs.
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Sakuma Nobumori never devised any overarching military measures against the Honganji, even though their war had remained in a stalemate.