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The Sengoku period ( in the History Of Japan that spans from the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. It started in the late Muromachi Period in 1467 with the Onin War ( 1467 – 1478 ), lasting through the entire Azuchi-Momoyama Period , until final peace and order was achieved in 1615 of the Edo Period . Starting with and continuing after the Onin War, the central ruling authority of the Ashikaga Or Muromachi Shogunate in the capital of Kyoto was ruined, leading to a complete breakdown in social order and civil war throughout Japan . Outside of the capital, the provincial Daimyo and magistrates that relied on the Shogunate for their own authority and power, found themselves isolated and vulnerable to not only external, but internal forces as well. ''GEKOKUJō'' Many of the provincial daimyo, such as Takeda Shingen and Imagawa Yoshimoto , having ruled their lands under the authority of not only the Ashikaga shogunate, but also under the preceding Kamakura Shogunate , established their own independent domains. However, many others, like the Hosokawa , Shiba , and Toki found their lands taken over by their own subjects and retainers, like the Oda , late Hojo , and Saito Dosan , who had seized the opportunity to establish their own name and become new Sengoku daimyo in their own right. Also, peasants throughout Japan united with religious leaders and monks of the Buddhist True Pure Land sect to form '' Ikko-ikki '' to rebel against and resist the rule of the daimyo. In some cases they succeeded in forming their own independent domains, of which the most famous ''ikko ikki'' in Kaga Province lasted independently for almost 100 years. This phenomenon of social upheaval where the retainers and subjects came to reject traditions and values of the prior establishment and forcefully overthrow their leaders to establish their own independence became known as ''gekokujō'' (下克上). Literally, gekokujo; means "the lower overcomes/conquers the upper". Oda Nobunaga , of the Oda clan, came very close to conquering the daimyo; but he was killed by his own retainer, Akechi Mitsuhide . The Oda clan was taken over by Nobunaga's most trusted general, the Ashigaru leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi . Hideyoshi eventually conquered all of Japan and received the title of '' Kampaku ''. During his reign Japan twice waged war against China and Korea . At his death bed in 1598 , Hideyoshi appoint 5 most powerful lords in Japan (Tokugawa, Maeda, Ukita, Uesugi, Mori) as the Council Of Five Regents to govern till his infant son, Hideyori came of age. Uneasy peace held until the death of Maeda Toshiie in 1599 . Ishida Mitsunari, a Toyotomi follower accused Tokugawa Ieyasu of disloyalty to the Toyotomi name, precipitating a crisis that led to the battle of Battle Of Sekigahara . Tokugawa Ieyasu emerged the victor following the defection of Kobayakawa Hideaki from the other side. Three years later, Ieyasu was declared Shogun and established the 3rd and strongest Shogunate. FAMOUS SENGOKU DAIMYO
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