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
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Japanese screen depicting the Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
Hosokawa Masamoto
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Battle of Sekigahara
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The Battle of Sekigahara was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 in what is now Gifu Prefecture, Japan, at the end of the Sengoku period.
Sengoku period
…dated to Oda Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto in 1568, the fall of the Ashikaga shogunate in 1573, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification of Japan in 1590, the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 or the Siege of Osaka in 1615. The period overlaps with the later Muromachi period and, under broader definitions, the Azuchi–Momoyama period…
Site of Matsudaira Tadayoshi and Ii Naomasa's Positions during the battle
Edo period screen depicting the Battle of Sekigahara – 160,000 men fought on October 21, 1600.
Ishida Mitsunari's letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, expressing a negative opinion of some generals' (including Kobayakawa Hideaki) reckless action during the Japanese invasions of Korea.