Ōnin War

Ōnin War
(1467–77) Civil war in central Japan that destroyed the remnants of central governmental authority and led to a century of warfare.

The conflict sprang from a succession dispute, with one powerful clan supporting the brother of the Ashikaga shogun (military ruler) and another supporting the shogun's infant son. It ended in stalemate, but clans across Japan became involved in hopes of increasing their territory through victory. The nation was at last reunified in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. See also Muromachi period; Warring States period.

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      (1467–77), civil war in the central Kyōto region of Japan, that began in the Ōnin period (1467–68) and was a prelude to a prolonged period of domestic strife (1490–1590). It led to the end of the manorial system and hastened the rise of the great territorial magnates, or daimyo.

      The war originated in rivalry between Hosokawa Katsumoto, prime minister (1452–64) for the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and Yamana Mochitoyo, whose family were powerful landowners in the western Honshu region. Yoshimasa's wife gave birth to a son in 1465, the year after the shogun had designated his brother Yoshimi as heir apparent. Yoshimi was allied with Hosokawa, and Yoshimasa's wife turned to Yamana to help her son gain his rightful position. Warfare erupted between the two sides in 1467. The ancient city of Kyōto was severely damaged in the fighting, which soon spread throughout the country, as local clans took sides in hopes of gaining more territory for themselves.

      Although the war ended in a stalemate in 1477, the Hosokawa did eventually win control of the government, but fighting in the provinces continued for another 100 years, eroding all pretense of central control over the outlying regions until the unifiers Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi established their hegemony in the late 16th century.

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