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Sengoku Japan Guide — A New English Project by Genji Ishida I have started a new English-language project called Sengoku Japan Guide , created for readers outside Japan who want to understand Japan’s Sengoku period. The Sengoku period is already well known around the world through famous figures such as Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. But understanding the period requires more than knowing the names of famous samurai. What was the Muromachi shogunate? What was the relationship between the emperor and the shogun? What were shugo, daimyo, and kokujin? Where were historical provinces such as Owari, Mikawa, Totomi, and Suruga? How did castles function? And how did regional rulers actually govern their territories? For readers who did not grow up studying Japanese history, these basic ideas can be surprisingly difficult to understand. For that reason, Sengoku Japan Guide is not simply a translation of Japanese articles. The articles are rewrit...