The Sengoku Jidai, or the Age of Warfare, was Japan’s most dynamic and chaotic period. Dozens of daimyo, or feudal lords, fought incessantly for …
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The Unification of Japan Explained
How did Japan go from a series of warring statelets to a strong unified nation?
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Since 1464, Japan had been going through an era of major upheaval remembered today as the Sengoku Jidai: the Warring States Period, a tumultuous age …
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) was a Japanese daimyo who deposed the Ashikaga shogunate and unified 30 of Japan’s 68 provinces through a series of brutal …
Since the late 12th century, the emperors of Japan had relinquished political powers to various military governors known as Shoguns. While the …
