what was the unification of japan like under the tokugawa
The three daimyo who unified Japan were Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Robert Oxnam President Emeritus, Asia Society. The unification of Japan at the turn of the seventeenth century was a crucial event. It brought an end to a hundred years of warfare and to the constant military struggles among the feudal lords or daimyo. Three famous daimyo spearheaded the unification in the late sixteenth century--and then, after the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, one man took control of all Japan.