The attack on the Honnō-ji temple, a Meiji-era woodblock triptych by Yōsai NobukazuImage: Nobukazu Yōsai · Public domainOda Nobunaga dies at the Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto
In the second half of the 16th century Japan was divided among rival warlords, and Oda Nobunaga was the most formidable of them. From his base in Owari he fought his way to Kyoto, drove out the last Ashikaga shogun in 1573 and brought much of central Japan under his control, using massed musketeers and ruthless force against his rivals and against armed Buddhist temples. In the summer of 1582 he stopped in Kyoto with only a small guard, lodging at the Honnō-ji temple on his way to support his general Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the west. Another of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide, who had been ordered west with his army, turned it on the capital instead. Before dawn on 21 June 1582 his troops surrounded the temple. Hopelessly outnumbered, Nobunaga died as the building burned, by his own hand according to most accounts, and his eldest son and heir was killed in Kyoto the same day. Mitsuhide’s motives have been argued over ever since. He held power for less than two weeks before Hideyoshi defeated him, and it was Hideyoshi who went on to finish the work of unifying Japan.
Source: Britannica: Oda Nobunaga ↗
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