Segoku Period

• The Sengoku period (1467 - 1573) started with and continued after the Onin War. The Sengoku period is described to be what historians call a century and a half of civil war in japan which started in the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. The sengoku period started during the 14th century when chaos spread throughout japan, this was because the power of the Ashikaga shogunate had almost declined completely and the shugo (governors chosen by the Shogun to supervise one or more of the provinces of Japan) lost their authority in the eastern provinces of Japan. Many provincial officials set themselves up as warlords and attacked each other in the Onin wars (1467-1477). During the Onin Wars the city of Kyoto (now known as Tokyo) was almost