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Hideyoshi, at a conference of the Oda …

Years: 1583 - 1583

Hideyoshi, at a conference of the Oda family's chief retainers, had insisted that Nobunaga's grandson succeed as head of the Oda family in opposition to two powerful vassals of their late leader who support Nobunaga's third son.

Hideyoshi defeats one of these vassals in a battle in 1583, and allows him to commit suicide.

After subduing a number of important strongholds, Hideyoshi in the same year builds Osaka Castle on the ruins of the fortress-monastery of Hongan-ji; it still stands today.

He now embarks on his attempt to conquer the whole of Japan in an effort to complete Nobunaga's work of unifying the country after more than two centuries of feudal warfare.