{"id":5084,"date":"2021-08-07T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2021-07-10T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:58:45","slug":"japan-in-the-sungoku-period-a-time-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/japan-in-the-sungoku-period-a-time-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan in the Sungoku Period &#8211; A Time of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/japan\/\">Japan in the Sungoku Period &#8211; A Time of War<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this worksheet, students learn that the16th century is known in Japan as the\u00a0<strong>Sungoku<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cwarring states\u201d) period. Although Japan had an emperor, he was largely powerless in the capital city, Kyoto. Instead, powerful warlords known as\u00a0<strong>Daimyo<\/strong>\u00a0fought one another for control of the country. One way of doing this was by using\u00a0<strong>Ninja<\/strong>warriors, who were professional spies and mercenaries who gathered intelligence and launched sneak attacks upon the enemy. Much more important, though, were the vast armies of warriors known as the\u00a0<strong>Samurai\u00a0<\/strong>(\u201cthose who serve\u201d). The Samurai had a strict code of conduct called\u00a0<strong>bushido<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cThe Way of the Warrior\u201d). Bushido is also the guiding principle behind\u00a0<strong>kendo<\/strong>, one of several martial arts (such as\u00a0<strong>judo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>jujutsu<\/strong>) that originated in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/japan.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/japan-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/japan-392x300.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan in the Sungoku Period &#8211; A Time of War Through this worksheet, students learn that the16th century is known in Japan as the\u00a0Sungoku\u00a0(\u201cwarring states\u201d) period. Although Japan had an emperor, he was largely powerless in the capital city, Kyoto. Instead, powerful warlords known as\u00a0Daimyo\u00a0fought one another for control of the country. One way of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/japan-in-the-sungoku-period-a-time-of-war\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5090,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/japan-in-the-tokugawa-period-a-time-of-peace\/","url_meta":{"origin":5084,"position":0},"title":"Japan in the Tokugawa Period &#8211; A Time of Peace","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"August 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Japan in the Tokugawa Period - A Time of Peace By the end of the century, unity had been gradually restored through the efforts of three warlords known as the \"Great Unifiers\": Oda Nobunaga (1534 - 1582), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536 - 1598), and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543 - 1616). 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