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  2. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    The Sengoku period, also known as Sengoku Jidai (Japanese: 戦国時代, Hepburn: Sengoku Jidai, lit. ' Warring States period '), is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  3. Timeline of Japanese history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, ... 16th century. Year Date Event 1523:

  4. Category:16th century in Japan - Wikipedia

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    16th-century military history of Japan (1 C, 19 P) P. 16th-century Japanese people (7 C, 82 P) S. Sengoku period (9 C, 38 P) Y. Years of the 16th century in Japan (66 ...

  5. Nanban trade - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, large junks belonging to private owners from Macau often accompanied the great ship to Japan, about two or three; these could reach about 400 or 500 tons burden. [18] After 1618, the Portuguese switched to using smaller and more maneuverable pinnaces and galliots, to avoid interception from Dutch raiders. [18]

  6. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    During the second half of the 16th century, Japan ... Emperor Shōwa's sixty-three-year reign from 1926 to 1989 is the longest in recorded Japanese history. ...

  7. Muromachi period - Wikipedia

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    Nanban ships arriving for trade in Japan. 16th-century painting. By the end of the Muromachi period, the first Europeans had arrived. The Portuguese landed in Tanegashima south of Kyūshū in 1543 and within two years were making regular port calls, initiating the century-long Nanban trade period.

  8. Atakebune - Wikipedia

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    A 16th-century Japanese "Atakebune" coastal naval war vessel, bearing the symbol of the Tokugawa Clan. Murakami Navy's Atakebune model. Atakebune (安宅船) were Japanese warships of the 16th and 17th century used during the internecine Japanese wars for political control and unity of all Japan.

  9. Wokou - Wikipedia

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    14th and 16th-century wokou pirate raids One of the gates of the Chongwu Fortress on the Fujian coast (originally built c. 1384). The origin of the term wokou dates back to the 4th century, but among wokou's activities, which are divided into two academic periods, the pirates called "early wokou" were borne from the Mongol invasions of Japan.