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.

Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画, literally "Animal-person Caricatures"), commonly shortened to Chōjū-giga (鳥獣戯画, literally "Animal Caricatures"), is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kōzan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.

The Sengoku Period (1454-1573) was an era marked by civil conflict; however, it was also a time of significant cultural and economic growth. As the major warlords Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

In this pair of screens, showing a uniquely Japanese interpretation of Muqi’s style, a chain of gibbons tries to grasp the reflection of the moon in the water below—a futile effort that in Zen signifies the delusions of the unawakened mind.

In this unusually exuberant interpretation by Sesson, the sages dance wildly in the company of equally ebullient women and children. Even the bamboo seems to sway to the drumbeat.

The succeeding century of violent territorial competition between daimyo is known as the Sengoku period. 1483 Ashikaga shōgun Yoshimasa (1436–1490), one of the period’s most influential and insightful art patrons but a weak and indecisive leader, builds the Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion) as his retirement retreat.

An era of great turmoil that saw the decline of the Muromachi shogunate and the rise of regional warlords all across the country, Japan's Sengoku Period (1454-1573) was also a time of progress –...

Prior to Edo, Japan suffered more than a century of civil war (1467–1568) known as the Sengoku period (“country at war”) with regional warlords battling each other for supremacy.

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Jan 4, 2024 · First of all, The Sengoku period refers to the 50 years from 1573, when Oda Nobunaga（織田信長） expelled Ashikaga Yoshiaki（足利義昭） from Kyoto and destroyed the Muromachi shogunate（室町幕府）, to 1615, when the Toyotomi clan was destroyed and the Tokugawa shogunate was established.