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  2. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    Thus began the Sengoku period, a period of civil war in which the daimyo of various regions fought to expand their own power. [9] [12] Daimyo who became more powerful as the shogunate's control weakened were called sengoku daimyo (戦国大名), and they often came from shugo daimyo, Shugodai, and kokujin or kunibito (国人, local masters).

  3. Daimyo - Wikipedia

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    A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD). Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.

  4. Map of Japan (Kanazawa Bunko) - Wikipedia

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    Yanmen was well known in Japan through Chinese classics and would become the source of the imaginary entity in Japan's northern frontier. [1] The next label shows Silla of Korea even though it was replaced by Goryeo in 935. In medieval Japanese narratives, Silla was associated with Empress Jingū's conquest of the three Koreas. Thus Silla was ...

  5. List of han - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese/Cyrillic 1789 map of Japan showing provincial borders and the castle towns of han and major shogunate castles/cities Map of Japan, 1855, with provinces. Map of Japan, 1871, with provinces. The list of han or domains in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) changed from time to time during the Edo period. Han were feudal domains that ...

  6. Jōkamachi - Wikipedia

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    Osaka continued to be the business center in the Edo period and was called the "kitchen of the land". Most of the world's walled cities comprise a castle and a city inside the defensive walls. While Japan did have towns and villages surrounded by moats and earth mounds , such as Sakai , jōkamachi initially had moats and walls only around the ...

  7. Japanese maps - Wikipedia

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    Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").

  8. Shogun: How an Englishman from Kent made an ... - AOL

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    A sprawling historical drama set in feudal Japan’s tumultuous Sengoku period, the series’ epic scope and promise of adventure have drawn comparisons to HBO’s mammoth hit Game of Thrones.

  9. Fukui Prefectural Ichijodani Asakura Family Site Museum

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    The Asakura clan established its territory in the area in 1471 during the Sengoku Period and had a castle in Ichijodani. However, the castle and the town was later burnt down to ash by Oda Nobunaga. [1] The museum opened in 1981. In October 2022, a new museum building opened to the public in an adjacent block. [2]