Oda

The Oda were samurai lords who followed the Shiba governors from Echizen to Owari Province. Oda Nobuhide took Nagoya Castle in 1538, and his son Nobunaga overcame rival branches of the family to unite Owari.

Nobunaga brought much of central Japan under his control and removed Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573. In 1582 his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide trapped him at Honnō-ji in Kyoto, where he killed himself. Toyotomi Hideyoshi surpassed the Oda, although family branches remained daimyō during the Edo period.