JSC History Week 4 Session 2

Fighting Local Heroes

Doyoung ParkOsaka Gakuin University

Last Session Review

The rise of samurai Weak emperor VS strong noble families Emergence of samurai as a mercenary of an empe

ror Mercenary became the power Emperor hired the other samurai

History repeated

戦国時代Sengoku Period

1467-1573

キューピー

Various Kewpie

Osaka Kewpie

Nara Kewpie

Kyoto Kewpie

ご当地GotochiLocal

Strong local identity of Japanese Related to Sengoku period

Japanese local identity

Japanese local identity

Date Masamune: Sendai

Takeda Shingen: Shizuoka

Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Osaka

Kato Kiyomasa: Kumamoto

Why Sengoku period?

Civil War period Collapse of Central Power

The Age of local prefectures Everyone could be a conqueror

Strong local identity under the leadership of local heroes Who is your master?

Edo, the exploiter Victimized local prefectures

Romanticism for the Warring period

Sengoku Boom

TV Drama and Sengoku

Naoe Kagetsugu

戦国 BASARA

明智光秀　 Akechi Mitsuhide

Locals and Politics

Tohru Hashimoto Osaka prefecture Reconstruction of

the financial administration of Osaka

Local autonomy

Locals and Politics

Hideo Higashigokubaru Miyazaki prefecture

Revisit the Sengoku

Helpless imperial court

Weak bakufu Ambitious feudal lords Civil war 1467 – Onin War 1573 – Muromachi

bakufu collapsed

Reality of Sengoku Period

Emphasizing practical ability Betrayal was one of tactics Fair play and gentlemanship? People as a component

Three Heroes

Oda Nobunaga 織田信長 1534-1582 Feudal of Owari Area Destroyed the

Muromachi shogunate

The strongest Feudal lord

Nobunaga’s Action Figure

What do you see?

New weapon

Honnoji

Nobunaga’s subject, Akechi Mitsuhide killed Nobunaga

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Came from a poor peasant family

Low ranking soldier Example of the

sengoku dream Former Imakawa

army, later Nobunaga army

Strategy

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Management of manpower

Wait for the time Endurance

Ieyasu’s Edo

Ieyasu Destroyed the Toyotomi

鳴かぬなら殺してしまえほととぎす　信長鳴かぬなら鳴かせてみようほととぎす　秀吉鳴かぬなら鳴くまで待とうほととぎす　家康