Yep, that's right, the Chinese city. It really is amazing how a single accidental event like this can really have such a huge effect. If not for this one event Japanese history, and probably Asian history as a whole, would look completely different.
Nobunaga is not very well thought of in Japan. He was a bloodthirsty tyrant who would kill at the drop of a dime and butchered women and children. Very often in media today (games, movies), he is portrayed as the villain, even as a demon. Many think that his true ambition was to kill the emperor and start his own dynasty. He probably could have easily conquered the country if he hadn't been betrayed. But you're right—one of his few virtues is that he didn't care about social rank or class and he treated low people like Hideyoshi the same as high people.
Hideyoshi, at least when he was a young man, before he went crazy and decided to foolishly attempt to conquer China and Korea, has a much better image and is generally well liked, sometimes even more than Ieyasu, the man who came after him.
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