The Azuchi–Momoyama period was the final phase of the Sengoku, or warring states, era in Japan, named after Azuchi Castle, built by Oda Nobunaga, and the Momoyama castle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Nobunaga entered Kyoto with Ashikaga Yoshiaki and began unifying the country but was killed at Honnō-ji in 1582. Hideyoshi completed the unification, carried out land surveys, disarmed the peasantry in the so-called sword hunt, and invaded Korea in 1592. The era is known for its grand castles and for lavish screen paintings on gold leaf by artists of the Kanō school, and for the tea master Sen no Rikyū. Jesuit missionaries were active at this time. It ended when Tokugawa Ieyasu won the Battle of Sekigahara.
Before and after
- 1567Construction of Stari Most
- 15 May 1567Birth of Claudio Monteverdi
- 25 July 1567Founding of Caracas
- 1568The Blind Leading the Blind
- from 1568 to 1600Azuchi-Momoyama period
- from 1568 to 1570First Russo-Turkish War
- from 1568 to 1918Russo-Turkish Wars
- from May 1568 to May 1573Marian civil war
- from 23 May 1568 to 30 January 1648Eighty Years' War
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The era
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