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The military history of Japan covers a vast time-period of over three millennia - from the Jōmon (c. 1000 BC) to the present day. After a long period of clan warfare until the 12th century, there followed feudal wars that culminated in military governments known as the Shogunate.
Kyoroku War (1531) ja:享禄の錯乱; Battle of Daimotsu (1531) ja:大物崩れ; Tenbun War (1532–1535) ja:天文の錯乱. Siege of Iimoriyama (1532) ja:飯盛山城の戦い; Siege of Sakai (1532) Siege of Yamashina Honganji (1532) ja:山科本願寺の戦い; Battle of Idano (1535) Battle of Un no Kuchi (1536) Battle of Sanbuichigahara (1536)
This is a list of wars involving Japan recorded in history. List. This page lists battles between Japanese central or local forces and foreign forces, as well as ...
The Battle of Sekigahara was the largest battle of Japanese feudal history and is often regarded as the most important. Mitsunari's defeat in the battle of Sekigahara is generally considered to be the beginning point of the Tokugawa shogunate , which ruled Japan for another two and a half centuries until 1868.
The war falls into Japan's protohistoric period. While the earliest Japanese national chronicles Kojiki and Nihon Shoki begin their accounts from the Age of the Gods, they are largely mythological in nature, and the account in the Nihon Shoki is reliable as a history only after about the late 6th century. [3]
Arriving Japanese samurai prepares to man the fortification against invaders of the Mongol invasions of Japan, painted c. 1293 As in most cultures around the globe, a war horse in East Asia was trained to be controlled with limited use of reins , responding primarily to the rider's legs and weight . [ 2 ]
The Genpei War (源平合戦, Genpei Kassen, Genpei-Gassen, 1180–1185) was a national civil war [1] between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late Heian period of Japan. It resulted in the downfall of the Taira and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto no Yoritomo , who appointed himself as Shōgun in 1192 ...
First Sino-Japanese War starts. 1895: 17 April: The First Sino-Japanese War is won by the Japanese, resulting in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was the first major conflict between Japan and an overseas military power in modern times. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan. Korea became a vassal state of ...