"Oda Nobunaga was born on June 23, 1534, at Nagoya Castle and was given the childhood name of Kippōshi (吉法師?).[1] His mother was Tsuchida Gozen, Nobuhide's wife, making him Nobuhide's first legitimate son; therefore, by the age of two, he became the ruler of Nagoya Castle. Through his childhood and early teenage years, he was well-known for his bizarre behavior and received the name of Owari no Ooutsuke (尾張の大うつけ? The Fool of Owari). With the introduction of firearms into Japan, though, he became known for his fondness of Tanegashima firearms. He was also known to run around with other youths from the area, without any regard to his own ranking in society."by wikipedia
Above is short and basic information of Nobunaga.
I just learned that he was also bi-suxual, too. He was very fond of his mate Ranmaru.
Acutalluy not only Nobunaga, also a lot of bushi(samurai) were bisexual. e.g. Shingen Takeda, Masamune Date.
It says that having a male mate was high-end and noble custom for samurai to have male mate.
This is also called "Shudou"(it wasn't common for other classes of men, e.g. farmers) They found even love letters from Shougun to his boyfriend.
Interesting!
(It might be common sense for who are into history, but i was always asleep during history class...)
Then why now Japanese society is so closed to gay/lesbian people...
I wish they would be more opened to non heterosexual people.
need to find something hip?
