Welcome to the third bonus episode with your hosts Chris and Forest. In this bonus episode, your hosts look at Oda Nobunaga's retainer band. One thing that sets the Sengoku daimyo Oda Nobunaga apart from his contemporaries was his willingness to employ primarily young men of ability who lacked rank or lineage. The unorthodox composition of Nobunaga's retainer band is perhaps both a reflection of his own unorthodox nature, and a result of a lack of old, traditional retainer families attached t...
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