Sengoku period

period of Japanese history from 1467 to 1615

15th-century civil war in Japan

chronicle of Oda Nobunaga

type of association

the seizure of swords and a variety of other weapons from civilians in Japanese history

The were lower-ranking provincial samurai that emerged in 15th-century Japan Muromachi period. The definition was rather broad and the term jizamurai included landholding military aristocracy as well as independent peasant farmers. They alternated between warfare and using their relatively small plots of land for intensive and diversified forms of agriculture. They came from the powerful , who owned farmland and held leadership positions in their villages, and became vassals of and later .

The were Japanese teamsters or cargo carriers who used horses to transport their shipments. They were chiefly active between the Heian Period and the Sengoku Period. Images of the bashaku are famously drawn on the emakimono depicting the founding of Ishiyama-dera.

Japanese samurai clan

Earthquake in Japan

samurai

Rebellious break-away Japanese state during the late Muromachi period

A koshō (小姓) was a type of samurai position, serving at the side of a military commander and handling various miscellaneous duties. The term originates from the homophone "扈従" (meaning a person who accompanies a noble), and can also be written as "小性".

, "single-minded school," was a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists whose history remains obscure.

Japanese clan during the Sengoku period

Japanese clan

Shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture, Japan

coup d'état in 15th century Japan

building in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan