JSC History Week 4 Session 2 Fighting Local Heroes
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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