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The Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai, lit. ' Warring States period ' ) is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Sengoku (written: 仙石, 千石 or 仙谷) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Hiroko Sengoku (仙石), Japanese manga artist
Name (birth–death) Shogun from Shogun until 1 Kose no Maro: 709 2 Tajihi no Agatamori: 720 721 3 Ōtomo no Yakamochi (c. 718–785) 784 785 4 Ki no Kosami: 788 789 5 Ōtomo no Otomaro (731–809) 793 794 6 Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758–811) 797 808 7 Funya no Watamaro (765–823) 811 816 8 Fujiwara no Tadabumi (873–947) 940 9 Minamoto no ...
It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period , the chieftain of the main line of the Matsudaira clan, Matsudaira Motoyasu became a powerful regional daimyo under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Tsukahara Bokuden (塚原 卜伝, 1489 – March 6, 1571) was a famous swordsman of the early Sengoku period.He was described as a kensei (sword saint). He was the founder of a new Kashima style of kenjutsu, and served as an instructor of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ise provincial governor daimyō Kitabatake Tomonori.
Hattori Hanzō (服部 半蔵, c. 1542 [1] – January 2, 1597) or Second Hanzō, nicknamed Oni no Hanzō (鬼の半蔵, Demon Hanzō), [2] was a famous samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the ruler of united Japan.
Sengoku Hidehisa (仙石 秀久, February 20, 1552 − June 13, 1614), childhood name Gonbei (権兵衛) was a samurai warrior of the Sengoku period and the Edo period. He was the head of the Komoro Domain in Shinano Province. [1] Hidehisa is also credited with being the man who captured the legendary outlaw hero "Ishikawa Goemon".
Imagawa Yoshimoto (今川 義元, 1519 – June 12, 1560) was a Japanese daimyō (feudal lord) of the Sengoku period.Based in Suruga Province, he was known as The number one Daimyō in the Tōkaidō (海道一の弓取り, Kaidō-ichi no Yumitori); [1] he was one of the three daimyō that dominated the Tōkaidō region.