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Warfare, Politics, and Society Warfare in Japanese history has been inextricably related to changing pol- itics and society. Kno ...

Until the sixth century, Japan experienced a process of state formation and power consolidation through frequent warfare among l ...

region (present-day Nara prefecture) where one dynasty was able to con- solidate power, later claiming supreme rulership of the ...

Tenmu’s conscript army eventually had to be restructured based on new guidelines provided by the Taihô Codes of 702. The Taihô C ...

of the Taira and the Minamoto as viewed by the court was to protect the interests of the imperial and other court families in th ...

The third war was more accurately a one-night armed conflict known as the Hôgen Conflict (1156), usually characterized as a fact ...

winds that blew the invading armada off the Japanese coast have taken much of the credit Japanese warriors deserve. Though Japan ...

as the Ônin War, and lasted until 1477, after which it spread to the provinces until the rise of dominant daimyo. The gradual br ...

would be punished. The kenka ryô seibai was also a way for the daimyo to deal with the problems caused by their vassal’s desire ...

led by Tokugawa Ieyasu won a decisive victory, and Toyotomi supporters retreated to Ôsaka Castle. The third of the three unifier ...

improve their arsenal of weapons using that technology. Consequently, even more important than swords, Japanese smiths forged ot ...

much influence on the production of the common bow. It is also surprising that the Japanese did not borrow the more advanced tec ...

fact, some of these weapons were converted to modern use and are cur- rently part of standard equipment for riot police units. E ...

Stories of loyal warriors were often recorded in the various war tales, from the very early tales during the Heian and medieval ...

The periodic emphasis on the ideal character and behavior of a samu- rai, especially during the samurai decline in the Tokugawa ...

to one’s parents and lord, moral principles, and frugality, were more often ignored than followed. The case of the forty-seven w ...

of the bloody Ônin War (1467–1477), he devoted himself to promotion and patronage of the arts more than Yoshimitsu had before hi ...

Toyotomi’s death and the eventual establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate ended a long period of warriors’ patronage of the arts ...

Berry, Marry Elizabeth. 1994. The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto.Berkeley: University of California Press. Farris, William Wayne. ...

Establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603) included strict con- trol over weapons and the activities of the samurai class, b ...