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In [[1568]] Nobunaga's army marched westward in Yoshiaki's name, brushing aside the Rokkaku of southern Omi and putting to flight Miyoshi and Matsunaga. [[Matsunaga Hisahide]] promptly submitted (for which he was confirmed Daimyo of [[Yamato province|Yamato]]) while the Miyoshi withdrew to Settsu. In the ninth month Nobunaga entered Kyoto and within three weeks Yoshiaki was installed as the fifteenth Ashikaga shogun with the approval of Emperor Ôgimachi. The mutually beneficial relationship of Yoshiaki and Nobunaga had thus far borne sweet fruit. In time, it would grow quite sour, foreshadowed by Nobunaga's refusal to accept the position of Kanrei, or deputy shogun, even when the Emperor himself requested he do so in [[1569]]. Nobunaga seemed determined to exist in a sort of political limbo, and expressed little interest in any orthodox rank or titles, including, as we shall see, that of shogun. That Nobunaga was the real ruler in Kyoto was the only part of the equation that lacked any sort of ambiguity.
In [[1568]] Nobunaga's army marched westward in Yoshiaki's name, brushing aside the Rokkaku of southern Omi and putting to flight Miyoshi and Matsunaga. [[Matsunaga Hisahide]] promptly submitted (for which he was confirmed Daimyo of [[Yamato province|Yamato]]) while the Miyoshi withdrew to Settsu. In the ninth month Nobunaga entered Kyoto and within three weeks Yoshiaki was installed as the fifteenth Ashikaga shogun with the approval of Emperor Ôgimachi. The mutually beneficial relationship of Yoshiaki and Nobunaga had thus far borne sweet fruit. In time, it would grow quite sour, foreshadowed by Nobunaga's refusal to accept the position of Kanrei, or deputy shogun, even when the Emperor himself requested he do so in [[1569]]. Nobunaga seemed determined to exist in a sort of political limbo, and expressed little interest in any orthodox rank or titles, including, as we shall see, that of shogun. That Nobunaga was the real ruler in Kyoto was the only part of the equation that lacked any sort of ambiguity.
Around this same time, in 1569-1570, Nobunaga launched a hunt for famous objects (''meibutsu gari''), sending out his followers to obtain for him some of the most famous historical swords, ceramics, and other objects in the realm; as a result, ten of the most famous tea utensils in Japan, along with a number of other notable objects, entered his collection. This collection was an important symbol of his cultural refinement, and of his power and legitimacy as ruler, "inheriting" many of these objects which had previously been in the collections of the Ashikaga shoguns.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 26.</ref>
==Resistance, 1570-1573==
==Resistance, 1570-1573==