This is my last post before I leave for Japan. The Oda are considered to be offshoots of the Fujiwara clan. In 1518, Oda Michikatsu the deputy governor of Owari issued a document signing it "Fujiwara no Michikatsu." Now the oldest document with Nobunaga's signature was written in 1549, when issued the a public off-limits notice to The Eight Villages of Atsuta signed as "Fujiwara no Nobunaga." That same year (1549), Nobunaga ordered 500 matchlock rifles from Kunitomo in Omi Province.
Now Nobunaga used the title "Fujiwara no Nobunaga" only once. The reason why Nobunaga used the Fujiwara name still unclear to this day. There is a theory that Nobunaga used the Fujiwara name to give him some special status claiming that the Oda was a descendent from a 14th century court noble by the name of Fujiwara Nobumasa.
Tenka no tame!
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