WI: Oda Nobunaga not assassinated

During the Unification of Japan in the Sengokj period, Oda Nobunaga was a powerful warlord that basically was halfway to uniting the country when he was assassinated on campaign. The ensuing power struggle would see one of his top generals, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, sieze lower, and following his death in 1598 the regency council for his infant son would fight for control with Tokugawa Iyasu emerging triumphant and becoming g the first Tokugawa Shogun.

So what if the assassin fails? The most immediate effect seems to be a Japan a decade or two earlier under the Oda. Of the man himself he was "brutal and successful" and a major innovator in what was essentially pike and shot warfare. A brilliant general, he also bad a more secure support base than Hideyoshi, coming from an established clan instead of being the son of a footsoldier. He was also a good administrator and was amenable to European traders and culture. I think I read somewhere that like Hideoyoshj he planned to invade Korea and possibly China as well. I think he might actually have succeeded in Korea or at least done better than Hideyoshi.

What does an Oda shogunate look like?
 

PsihoKekec

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As you said, his power base would be more secure than Hideyoshi's, so it's unlikely that Tokugawa would have a chance for his power grab. The question is what next? To cement his rule, he either has to instill the rigid system that was eventually established under Tokugawa shogunate or turn his ambitions to conquest. Korea or Phillipinnes, that is the question.
 
As you said, his power base would be more secure than Hideyoshi's, so it's unlikely that Tokugawa would have a chance for his power grab. The question is what next? To cement his rule, he either has to instill the rigid system that was eventually established under Tokugawa shogunate or turn his ambitions to conquest. Korea or Phillipinnes, that is the question.

My humble impression of Nobunaga is of a man who would prefer conquest to stability, and would be less likely to pass some of the more aggressively conservative reforms of Hideyoshi and Tokugawa.
 
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