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  2. 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 ...

  3. Sengoku period - Wikipedia

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    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 local power, seized wider political influence.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jōkamachi - Wikipedia

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    In the Edo period, jōkamachi served less as a military base and more as a political and economic capital for the shogunate government and domains of feudal lords. This shift was a result of the lack of warfare throughout the Edo period and the fact that most of the Han lords were occasionally transferred from one domain to another and thus had ...

  7. Kumabe Clan Yakata - Wikipedia

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    Kumabe clan yakata ruins (隈部氏館跡, Kumabe-shi yakata ato) is the site of a Sengoku period fortified manor located in the present-day Furushiro-cho neighborhood of the city of Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2013. [1] It is also called Nagano Castle (永野城跡).

  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").