He almost unified Japan in the 16th Century after more than 100 years of continuous fighting, killing, and commotion.
Nobunaga Oda is his name.
He was a god of war like Mars in ancient Greek religion.
He could be compared to Shiva of India, god of destruction and reproduction.
Nobunaga is famous and infamous same time.
He burned down one of oldest temple because temple had too much power to influence in politics.
People called him an enemy of Buddhism.
He attacked and killed almost everybody in Ninja Hometown, Iga and Koga, because Ninja was out of Nobunaga's control.
He fought to win many wars.
People shivered to hear that Nobunaga enjoyed his wine in a wine glass made of a human skull of a defeated enemy general.
He liked new and modern things brought from Europe that time.
He was one of the earliest to adopt rifles for his fights.
It took time to reload rifles of that time.
He lined up gun solders in a row so that his army can continue to fire rifles to his enemy.
His enemy's army, which was once called strongest in Japan, could not stand a minute in front of Nobunaga's gun squadron.
He changed the way of fighting with his guns.
He was strong.
He was ambitious.
He was self-confident.
People respected him.
People were afraid of him.
He had an extraordinary behavior of destruction.
He had a power to take actions without hesitation or delay, including violent ones.
People believed that, after Nobunaga's army attacked, there would be nothing left.
He was a revolutionary figure who almost unified Japan in 16th Century.
Nobunaga Oda's vision was "Change".
For his revolutionary "Change", he needed to destroy ancient regime.
At the same time, he conducted a lot of "Construction".
His vision and work can be found in his city development design and construction.
"Gifu" is one of the cities in West Japan.
He built a modern city, which had water supply and sewage system.
He was the one who built first "Free Market" in Japan.
Lewis Froys, Portugal Priest who visited Nobunaga described the prosperity of Nobunaga's City, "Gifu", to be equivalent to "Babylonia".
He had "Public Guest House" like we have today in White House or Tokyo Imperial Palace to entertain his guests.
He liked guests from foreign countries or other part of Japan.
He changed the whole ancient authorities and built the foundation of modern Japan.
Nobunaga Oda had a clear vision what he believed, and moved strongly ahead for the sake of their vision.
What is most noteworthy is not contents of vision, but their belief or faith in the vision and continuous effort to seek it.
It was not whether Nobunaga was right or wrong, but they had different visions and they had lived and died for their vision.
His achievement teaches people today the power of vision.