Reunification
The civil wars ended with the reunification of Japan under a triumvirate of generals of outstanding ability. The first, Oda Nobunaga , had the initial advantage of hailing from Owari, one of Japan's strategically placed central districts. Having achieved dominance of the Kyoto region, however, he was promptly assassinated. His successor was Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who had risen from obscurity to be one of Nobunaga's most trusted generals. Hideyoshi avenged Nobunaga's death and managed to outmanoeuvre all rivals with a shrewd mix of force and diplomacy. Success went to his head, however, and he embarked on costly excursions into Korea, which eventually had to be abandoned. Shortly before his death in 1598, Hideyoshi persuaded Tokugawa leyasu , now an ally after a period of circumspect confrontation, to support the succession of his son Hideyori . This trust was misplaced. After defeating the remaining western clans at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the ambitious Ieyasu decided to seize power, and sacked Osaka castle, Hideyori's stronghold, in 1615. The western clans retreated to their fiefdoms to brood on their grievances for the next 250 years, when they emerged to exact a sort of revenge against the Tokugawa Shogunate .
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