Nouveautés — Découvrez les dernières arrivées dans notre catalogue. Voir →
Batailles, incidents et événements historiques liés aux sabres japonais
8 événements
August 1428 – 1429 (Shōchō 1–2)
In August of Shōchō 1 (1428), a large-scale land uprising—the first of its kind in Japanese history—spread across Kyoto and the Kinai region, triggered by a bashaku (transport worker) uprising in Ōmi. Peasants and bashaku demanded tokusei (debt cancellation) and attacked pawnshops and sake merchants. The shogunate attempted to suppress the uprising through Akamatsu Mitsusuke, but in Nara, Kōfukuji Temple recognized tokusei. This was a landmark event marking the first emergence of organized collective armed action by the common people in history.
Lire la suite →
December 1391 (January 1392 in Western calendar)
In Meitoku 2 (1391), members of the Yamana clan, including Yamana Ujikiyo and Mitsuyuki, who had grown powerful enough to threaten the Ashikaga shogunate, raised a rebellion against the third-generation Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Yoshimitsu swiftly suppressed the regions around Kyoto and thoroughly reduced the power of the Yamana clan. This victory decisively established Yoshimitsu's supreme authority over the Muromachi shogunate and marked the peak of his patronage of sword culture.
26th day of the 7th month, Bunmei 18 (August 25, 1486)
In 1486, Ota Dokan — builder of Edo Castle and master of both arms and culture — was treacherously killed by his own lord Uesugi Sadamasa. His death destabilized Kanto politics and triggered the era of Hojo dominance, making it a pivotal turning point in the region's Sengoku history.
October–December 1399 CE (Ōei 6)
In 1399, the powerful western daimyo Ōuchi Yoshihiro raised a rebellion against Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu at Sakai in Izumi Province. Yoshihiro's death in battle with sword in hand ended the revolt and cemented Yoshimitsu's supreme authority, shaping the cultural flourishing of the Muromachi sword tradition.
June 1419 (Ōei 26)
In June of the 26th year of the Oei era (1419), the Yi Dynasty of Joseon attacked Tsushima with a massive force of 227 ships and 17,285 troops. Only about 600 Tsushima samurai, led by Sō Sadamori, put up a strong defense using the terrain to their advantage, defeating the Korean forces through surprise tactics. This was the first organized foreign military invasion of Japan in 140 years since the Mongol Invasions, bringing major turning points to the Muromachi shogunate and Japan-Korea relations.
From Onin 1–Bunmei 9 (1467–1477) onward
The Onin War (1467–1477) and the subsequent collapse of Ashikaga shogunate authority caused the mass dispersal of the Higashiyama Gomotsu — the Ashikaga shogunate's legendary collection of thousands of Chinese and Japanese cultural objects including named swords, paintings, tea implements, and textiles. Assembled over generations by the Ashikaga shoguns and meticulously cataloged by the Hon'ami family, the collection had been the physical embodiment of shogunal cultural authority. Its scattering through war and subsequent political fragmentation redistributed famous blades throughout Japan and fundamentally reshaped the sword culture of the Sengoku period.
January 15, 1455 – 1482 CE
The Kyōtoku War (1454–1482) was a 28-year conflict in the Kantō region triggered when Ashikaga Shigeuji, the fifth Kamakura kubō, killed Kantō Kanrei Uesugi Noritada. The resulting war between the Furukawa kubō and the Uesugi/shogunate forces ushered in the Sengoku period in eastern Japan and profoundly disrupted the sword-making traditions of the Kantō region.
1467–1477 (Ōnin 1 – Bunmei 9)
The Ōnin War (1467–1477) erupted over a shogunal succession dispute, pitting the eastern Hosokawa faction against the western Yamana faction across the ruins of Kyoto for eleven years. The conflict effectively ended the Muromachi order and opened Japan's century of civil war.