Home Region: Northeast Asia (East Asia)
Warring States Japan
1467 CE 1568 CE
Displayed: 1568 CE
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General Description
During the Sengoku Period Japan was fought over by armies of samurau their nobles called the daimyo (’the great names’). The shogun became a prize to control and the capital at Kyoto was devastated by war. The period is also known as the Onin War and the Age of the Warring States (which translated into Japanese becomes the Sengoku jidai or Sengoku Period).
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There was no central government. The daimyo, supported by their close kinsmen and vassals, often had an inner council to decide on matters of administration and military policy. Military administrators known as bugyo are known to have been employed in a non-fighting capacity.
The dominant territory (kokka) was not defined by the borders of the traditional kuni (province) and was split into fiefs which the daiymo either directly maintained or controlled through a vassal. At times the daimyo made alliances with each other in the quest for more power.
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Despite the turmoil the population during this period probably increased by five million over 100 years to about 20 million in 1568 CE.
[1]: (Turnbull 2002) S Turnbull. 2002. War in Japan: 1467-1615. Osprey Publishing.
[2]: (Turnbull 2008) S Turnbull. 2008. Samurai Armies 1467-1649. Osprey Publishing.
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
| Japanese |
| Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama |
| continuation |
| Preceding: Ashikaga Shogunate (jp_ashikaga) [continuity] |
| quasi-polity |
Language
Religion
Social Scale
| 40,000 people | 1500 CE |
| 100,000 people | 1550 CE |
| 300,000 km2 |
| 15,000,000 people | 1467 CE |
| 17,000,000 people | 1500 CE |
| 20,000,000 people | 1568 CE |
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information
/ Writing System
Information
/ Kinds of Written Documents
Information
/ Money
Information
/ Postal System
Information
/ Measurement System
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
| Present |
| Absent |
| Absent |
| Unknown |
| Unknown |
| inferred Absent | 1467 CE 1542 CE |
| Present | 1543 CE 1568 CE |
| Present |
| Unknown |
| Present |
| inferred Absent |
Handheld weapons
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| Present |
| Present |
| Present | 1467 CE 1499 CE |
| Absent | 1500 CE 1568 CE |
| Present |
| inferred Present |
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Coding in Progress.
Religion Variables
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.
NGA Settlements:
| Year Range | Warring States Japan (jp_sengoku_jidai) was in: |
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| (1467 CE 1567 CE) | Kansai |
Home NGA: Kansai
General Variables
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| Utm Zone | 53 S | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Original Name | Japan - Sengoku Jidai | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Capital | Kyoto | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Alternative Name | Sengoku Period | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Alternative Name | Warring States Period | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Supracultural Entity | Japanese | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Succeeding Entity | Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Relationship to Preceding Entity | continuation | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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Preceding Entity
1336 CE 1467 CE
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| Degree of Centralization | quasi-polity | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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Social Complexity Variables
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| Population of the Largest Settlement | 40,000 people | Confident | 1500 CE | ||||||||
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| Population of the Largest Settlement | 100,000 people | Confident | 1550 CE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 300,000 km2 | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Polity Population | 15,000,000 people | Confident | 1467 CE | ||||||||
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| Polity Population | 17,000,000 people | Confident | 1500 CE | ||||||||
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| Polity Population | 20,000,000 people | Confident | 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Specialized Government Building | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Merit Promotion | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Full Time Bureaucrat | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Examination System | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Market | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Irrigation System | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Food Storage Site | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Drinking Water Supply System | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Entertainment Building | Uncoded | Undecided | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Written Record | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Script | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Phonetic Alphabetic Writing | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Nonwritten Record | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Non Phonetic Writing | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Mnemonic Device | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Scientific Literature | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Sacred Text | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Religious Literature | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Practical Literature | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Philosophy | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Lists Tables and Classification | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| History | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Fiction | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Calendar | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Token | Uncoded | Undecided | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Indigenous Coin | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Foreign Coin | Uncoded | Undecided | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Article | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Postal Station | Uncoded | Undecided | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Courier | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
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| Wooden Palisade | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Stone Walls Non Mortared | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Stone Walls Mortared | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Settlements in a Defensive Position | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Modern Fortification | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moat | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Fortified Camp | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Earth Rampart | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Ditch | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Complex Fortification | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Long Wall | unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Tension Siege Engine | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Sling Siege Engine | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Sling | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Self Bow | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Javelin | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Handheld Firearm | Absent | Inferred | 1467 CE 1542 CE | ||||||||
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| Handheld Firearm | Present | Confident | 1543 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Gunpowder Siege Artillery | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Crossbow | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Composite Bow | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Atlatl | Absent | Inferred | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| War Club | Present | Inferred | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Sword | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Spear | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Polearm | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1499 CE | ||||||||
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| Polearm | Absent | Confident | 1500 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Dagger | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Battle Axe | Present | Inferred | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Wood Bark Etc | Unknown | Suspected | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Scaled Armor | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Plate Armor | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Limb Protection | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Leather Cloth | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Laminar Armor | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Helmet | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Chainmail | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Breastplate | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Religion Variables
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Broad | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Concern is Primary | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Agentic | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in This Life | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Punishment And Reward | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Religion Adopted by Commoners | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Targeted | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in Afterlife | Absent | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Religion Adopted by Elites | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement of Rulers | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Certain | Present | Confident | 1467 CE 1568 CE | ||||||||
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Crisis Cases
Instability Data
Power Transitions