<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishWakati wa vita vya Nobunaga, Hideyoshi na Tokugawa, Himeji ilikuwa kituo cha mapigano dhidi ya majeshi ya Honshu.  <response>: When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu. 