Unification of Japan
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Unification of Japan
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.023

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Abstract

In the middle of the fifteenth century, as western Europe entered its Renaissance, Japan found itself in the middle of a prolonged civil war. The Sengoku Jidai, or Period of Warring States, began with the Onin War of 1467, which was itself triggered by a succession crisis in Japan’s warrior government (bakufu). The Ashikaga clan had governed Japan’s decentralized feudal system since 1336, but they did so with only limited control given the high degree of autonomy enjoyed by provincial samurai lords (daimyo).

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