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Batailles, incidents et événements historiques liés aux sabres japonais
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July 1651 (Keian 4)
In 1651 (Keian 4), a group of rōnin led by the military strategist Yui Shōsetsu and the spearmanship master Marubashi Chūya attempted an abortive coup to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Seeing opportunity in the death of the third shogun Iemitsu and the succession of the young Ietsuna, they plotted an uprising, but it was exposed in advance through an informant. Shōsetsu took his own life at Sunpu, and Chūya was executed by crucifixion. The affair exposed the destitution of the masterless samurai produced in the age of peace and prompted a reform of shogunal policy toward the rōnin.
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1285-12-17
In November 1285 (8th year of Kōan), a political upheaval occurred when Adachi Yasushige, a powerful gokenin of the Kamakura Shogunate, was overthrown and destroyed by Taira no Yoritsuna, the internal administrator. While the Hōjō Tokusō autocratic system became firmly established, it deepened divisions within gokenin society and became a distant cause of the Shogunate's decline.
1221 (Jōkyū 3)
In 1221, Retired Emperor Go-Toba raised an army to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, but was crushed by the bakufu's overwhelming military response. Go-Toba was exiled to the Oki Islands, cementing warrior rule over Japan for centuries and reshaping the imperial relationship with the sword.