Samurai Bundle (10mm)

简介

The Sengoku period was the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or Meiō incident ja (1493) are generally chosen as the period's start date, but there are many competing historiographies for its end date, ranging from 1568, the date of Oda Nobunaga's march on Kyoto, to the suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638, deep into what was traditionally considered the Edo period. Regardless of the dates chosen, the Sengoku was characterized by the decline of the Ashikaga shogunate, the central government, while the daimyo lords acquired greater political influence. The period saw a breakdown in the traditional relationship between a lord and his vassals, with many instances of vassals rebelling against their lords and internal dynastic conflict over lordships within noble families (in which vassals would take sides). The period was also marked by the loosening of samurai culture, with people born into other social strata sometimes making a name for themselves as warriors and thus becoming samurai. In turn, events sometimes allowed common samurai to rise to the rank of sengoku daimyo; these included Hōjō Sōun (the first to do so), and Uesugi Kenshin, who attained power by weakening and eventually replacing his lord The most spectacular example of a sengoku-era rise is often considered to be that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose from a…