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

     
                                 D 215 677                                                                         D 215 657                                                                 D 215 710
                         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.

HISTORICAL FIGURES

Date Masamune (1567-1636)
Honda Tadakatsu (1548-1610)
Kanamori Nagachika (1524-1608)
 Oda Nobunaga (1534-82)
 Takeda Shingen (1521-73)
 Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-98)
Yamauchi Katsutoyo (1545-1605)
Xavier, Francis (1506-1552)
Yamanouchi Kazutoyo (1545/46-1605)
 HISTORICAL PLACES & EVENTS

Japanese Christian Century (1549-1638)
 Battle of Sekigahara (1600)