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Sengoku Period

Age of Japanese civil wars that ended with national unification under Tokugawa rule.

Timeline
1467-1615
Duration
149 years
Region
Japan
Record
Static archive

Historical overview

Overview adapted from a Wikipedia summary and stored locally on May 11, 2026.

The Sengoku period was an age of Japanese civil war among regional daimyo. It ended with national unification under Oda, Toyotomi and Tokugawa leadership.

Theater countries

Japan

Actors

Japanese daimyoAshikaga shogunateOda, Toyotomi and Tokugawa forces

Tags

civil-warstate-unificationjapan

Border context

1300-1499historical border era

Late medieval dynastic wars

Dynastic, imperial and state-forming wars reshape Europe, Anatolia, Central Asia and East Asia.

The Hundred Years' War reshapes France and England. Ottoman expansion ends Byzantine rule.
1500-1599historical border era

Early modern conquest and wars of religion

European oceanic conquest, Reformation warfare, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry and Asian state wars define a more connected conflict map.

Spanish conquests transform the Americas. Religious wars split parts of Europe.
1600-1648historical border era

Confessional empires and Westphalia

The Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Spain, the Ottoman frontier and Dutch independence wars define a fragmented early-modern map.

Borders are dynastic and imperial rather than nation-state based. The Westphalian settlement formalizes new state autonomy after 1648.

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