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  2. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    Takeda Shingen deflects Uesugi Kenshin's strike at the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima during the Sengoku period This period was characterized by the overthrow of a superior power by a subordinate one. The Ashikaga shogunate , the de facto central government, declined and the sengoku daimyo ( 戦国大名 , feudal lord of Sengoku period) , a ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Map of Japan (Kanazawa Bunko) - Wikipedia

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    A map of Japan currently stored at Kanazawa Bunko depicts Japan and surrounding countries, both real and imaginary. The date of creation is unknown but probably falls within the Kamakura period . It is one of the oldest surviving Gyōki-type maps of Japan.

  5. Han system - Wikipedia

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    A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyō around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD).. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the preeminent warlord of the late Sengoku period (1467–1603), caused a transformation of the han system during his reforms of the feudal structure of Japan.

  6. 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.

  7. Oda Nobunaga - Wikipedia

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    Later, during the Tokugawa period, Japan exported large quantities of no longer needed firearms to the Netherlands, along with swords and other weapons. [66] Nobunaga had the previously disparate spear lengths aligned to 3 ken (about 5.5 metres or 18 ft) or 3 and a half ken (about 6.4 metres or 21 ft).

  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. 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").