Sengoku period
The “Warring States” (about 1467-1590): Japan divided among rival lords
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The Sengoku period (戦国時代, “of the warring provinces”) runs roughly from the Ōnin War (1467) to the reunification of Japan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1590). The shōguns’ power collapsed and local lords fought over their lands.
In Shikoku, Chōsokabe Motochika set out from Tosa and controlled almost the whole island by 1585, before submitting to Hideyoshi the same year. Many pilgrimage temples say they were burned during these wars.
Yet pilgrims kept walking the circuit: in 1571, one of them, traveling alone, slept in the Tosa-jinja shrine that Chōsokabe had just rebuilt.
- In English
- The Warring States period, about 1467 to 1590.
- Other spellings
- Sengoku · époque Sengoku · sengoku jidai · période Sengoku · 戦国時代
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