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D'Artagnan
28th December 2008, 07:40 PM
This guy is a descendant of Oda Nobunaga - http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUVnJXF2qI&feature=PlayList&p=58F7D512E6BFCAD4&playnext=1&index=2

His name is Oda Nobunari, My wife is watching some figure skating show on tv and just pointed it out to me...
Fred27
28th December 2008, 08:27 PM
Really? Groovey! He comes from a very long line of famous samurai then. I believe Oda Nobunaga himself claimed he was descendant from the Taira family.
BramW
28th December 2008, 09:19 PM
Oda is the 17th direct descendant of Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo during Japan's Sengoku period who conquered most of Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobunari_Oda
Kagerou
29th December 2008, 05:49 AM
wonder what it was like for him growing up with a family reputation like that...
ShinKenshi
29th December 2008, 09:50 AM
Oda is the 17th direct descendant of Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo during Japan's Sengoku period who conquered most of Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobunari_OdaNow that is some pedigree! Excellence must run in the family.
Kenzan
29th December 2008, 10:21 AM
Magnificent, actually.
xvikingx
29th December 2008, 10:48 AM
Ruthless war lord to figure skater. My how the times have changed.
Kagerou
29th December 2008, 12:56 PM
Ruthless war lord to figure skater. My how the times have changed.

I thought the same thing....It's funny but a lot of the big families have become business families. One of my students is a Takeda (from the younger sons line) and she says her husbands company is full of the decendents of famous Samurai families. She says they joke around about who killed off who's ancestors. Bit twisted.
JoDuncan
29th December 2008, 06:14 PM
Don't know squat about warlords (apart from the dude that was in WWF in the 90s) nor skating... but that was pretty cool; both the trivia and the performance.

Notice the commentators said he has good knees? Proof that he has no interest in sword stuff ;)
dwez
29th December 2008, 07:58 PM
If you go to the World Museum Liverpool (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/treasurehousetheatre/) they have a display of Samurai Armour (suitable for 8s and over) - demonstrating replica 16th century Japanese Samurai armour, where a lucky volunteer gets to become Lord Oda and help them demonstrate this amazing armour. I've been twice and the second time did actually try to be the volunteer but was unlucky. It's a fun and interesting event and free to boot!
Fred27
29th December 2008, 11:38 PM
wonder what it was like for him growing up with a family reputation like that...

It might have sucked..Talk about big shoes to fill!