Editing Oda Nobunaga (section)

===Construction of Azuchi Castle===
{{Main|Azuchi Castle}}

[[File:近江国蒲生郡安土城之.jpg|thumb|Azuchi-jō-zu, a drawing of the [[Azuchi castle]]]]

[[Azuchi Castle]] was built from 1576 to 1579 on Mount Azuchi on the eastern shore of [[Lake Biwa]] in [[Ōmi Province]].<ref name=Hinago>{{Cite book |last=Hinago |first=Motoo |title=Japanese Castles |publisher=Kodansha International Ltd. and Shibundo |year=1986 |isbn=0870117661 |pages=17, 28, 118–21}}</ref> Nobunaga intentionally built Azuchi Castle close enough to Kyoto that he could watch over and guard the approaches to the capital. Azuchi Castle's location was also strategically advantageous in managing the communications and transportation routes between Nobunaga's greatest foes - [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]] to the north, the Takeda in the east, and the [[Mōri clan|Mōri]] to the west.<ref name=tourist>Ōrui, N. and M. Toba (1935). <u>Castles in Japan</u>. Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry & Japan Government Railways.</ref> The castle and its nearby town were depicted on the so-called [[Azuchi Screens]], which Oda Nobunaga gave to [[Pope Gregory XIII]], who displayed them in the [[Vatican Museums|Vatican collections]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKelway |first1=Matthew |date=2006 |title=Capitalscapes Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |page=296 |chapter=The Azuchi Screens and Images of Castles |isbn= 978-0824861773 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>