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Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired
Oda Ujiharu was known as the weakest Sengoku samurai warlord. Why, then, do so many people admire him today? Let’s find out.
During the Sengoku period, both the shogunate and the emperor effectively lost power, so Ujiharu’s ancestry meant nothing to the Hojo, Yuki, Satake or Uesugi clans, who conquered Oda Castle a total of nine times. Losing one’s home once was often enough to drive a Sengoku samurai to commit seppuku out of shame, but if Ujiharu dismembered himself every time he lost Oda Castle, he’d have been just a head floating in a jar by the end. That being said, he did make mistakes, like betraying Uesugi Kenshin, one of Japan’s most powerful and feared warlords, often mentioned in the same breath as Oda Nobunaga (plus an ordained monk fueled in battle by his fiery faith).
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