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For about three centuries, between the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate and the end of the Sengoku Jidai, military chaos gripped Japan. Out of this chaotic, shifting world, emerged local alliances made between peasants, bureaucrats, and low ranking samurai, called “ikki”. The rise of the ikki heralded a shift in Japanese societal structure, and for those three hundred years it would become the dominant feature of Japanese society, whose historians often term it “the age of the ikki”
SOURCES
The Futile Paradigm, Friday
War and State Building in Medieval Japan, Rosenbluth
The Taming of the Samurai, Ikegami
For about three centuries, between the fall of the Kamakura Shogunate and the end of the Sengoku Jidai, military chaos gripped Japan. Out of this chaotic, shifting world, emerged local alliances made between peasants, bureaucrats, and low ranking samurai, called “ikki”. The rise of the ikki heralded a shift in Japanese societal structure, and for those three hundred years it would become the dominant feature of Japanese society, whose historians often term it “the age of the ikki”
SOURCES
The Futile Paradigm, Friday
War and State Building in Medieval Japan, Rosenbluth
The Taming of the Samurai, Ikegami
