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Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1600)
安土桃山時代 azuchi-momoyama-jidai

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi Oda Nobunaga Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Azuchi-Momoyama period is named after the sites of two castles, Oda Nobunaga's fortress at Azuchi - Azuchi-jô - to the east of Kyôto and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's headquarters at Momoyama in Fushimi - Momoyama-jô - to the south of Kyôto. A short but spectacular epoch, which could witness how Japanese society and culture underwent the transition from the medieval to the early modern era - and Japan's unification after the civil war of the Sengoku period (1467-1568) by the "three heroes" Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu won the hegemony at the Battle of Sekigahara (1600) and established the Tokugawa shogunate three years later, thereby starting a new epoch.