I · The Breaker
Oda Nobunaga
Shattered the old order with ruthless ambition and new tactics, beginning the conquest of the warring provinces.
01The Sengoku era · Age of warring states
The Unifiers of Japan
Three warlords ended a century of civil war. Oda Nobunaga broke the old order, Toyotomi Hideyoshi bound the realm together, and Tokugawa Ieyasu sealed a peace that lasted generations.
織田
Nobunaga
The Breaker
豊臣
Hideyoshi
The Builder
徳川
Ieyasu
The Keeper
Tenka Fubu — the realm under arms
The Three Unifiers
Three warlords, one unbroken realm
Out of a century of civil war, three men in succession forged a divided archipelago into a single nation. Each played a role the others could not.
II · The Builder
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Rose from humble origins to complete the unification, binding the lords together through diplomacy and force.
III · The Keeper
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Waited, endured and prevailed, founding the shogunate that brought lasting peace to Japan.
Sengoku → Edo
From warring-states chaos to lasting peace
For more than a century, rival daimyō tore Japan apart. Three men, one after another, bent that chaos toward a single order — by sword, by diplomacy, and by patience.
Read the chronicleChaos
Provinces at war, the shogunate hollowed out, loyalty traded for land.
Conquest
Nobunaga and Hideyoshi forge alliances and break strongholds.
Peace
Ieyasu founds an enduring order that reshapes the nation.
Side by side
Three minds, one realm
Select a unifier to compare what each wanted, how each pursued it, and what each left behind.
Nobunaga broke, Hideyoshi built, Ieyasu kept.
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Walk the road from Owari to Edo
Follow Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu battle by battle, alliance by alliance — each unifier's full chapter, told in order.