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When reading up on Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi I often see them referred to as the "great unifiers" but I can't find what (if anything) Japanese people call them?
Is there an equivalent to "the three unifiers of Japan" in Japanese, or are they just Oda "kill the bird" Nobunaga, Tokugawa "convince it" Ieyasu, and Toyotomi "wait" Hideyoshi, with no fancy collective title?
We call them 「三英傑{さんえいけつ}」 at least around Nagoya where all of the three are from.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E8%8B%B1%E5%82%91
Outside of Central Japan, however, you might actually end up having to name the three when talking to people who are not too well-read on Japanese history.
