Ōnin War
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The Ōnin War, also known as the Upheaval of Ōnin and Ōnin-Bunmei war, was a civil war that lasted from 1467 to 1477, during the Muromachi period in Japan. Ōnin refers to the Japanese era during which
Painting depicting a battle during the Ōnin War
Marker at the location of the outbreak of the Ōnin War
Sengoku period
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The Sengoku period was an era of civil war, political fragmentation and social change in Japanese history. It conventionally began with the Ōnin War in 1467, although the Kyōtoku incident of 1454 and
Ōnin War
…into a nationwide civil war involving the Ashikaga shogunate and a number of daimyō (大名, feudal lords) in many regions of Japan. The war initiated the Sengoku period, "the Warring States period." This period was a long, drawn-out struggle for domination by individual daimyō, resulting in a mass power-struggle between…
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Japanese screen depicting the Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
Hosokawa Masamoto
Mōri Motonari