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*Database: Japanese Women in Society
In feudal Japan, a woman's situation was extremely variable. Importantly, it depended on whether she did, or did not, belong to the high class. For the popular classes, during village assemblies, the widows from the heads of families attended the debates, spoke, and give [sic] their opinions. In some woman [sic] created artisan guilds, husbands were even kept away from decision making. This was particularly true for pearl divers. With respect to the wives of merchants or artisans, they were generally in charge of financial matters, which led the Portuguese missionary Luis Frois [sic] to assert, Japanese women are the "usurers of their husbands."
In the 16th century Japanese women could move freely without an escort, unlike women in numerous other countries. Women also knew how to read and write, but it was a much less common skill for women who came from a modest background. In fact, some women even left their homes in broad daylight to conduct business. Furthermore, all women worked, even those of the higher class. For example, the ladies of the sogun's court, or other great lords, supervised service inside the residences, and were often responsible for drafting official documents concerning the family's property.
Yet, in some cases women were perceived as "impure" because they were suspected of defiling blood. As a result, some places were forbidden, such as ascetic places, sacred mountains, and even boats (although they were sometimes accepted as passengers). Conversely, women were highly sacred in Buddhism, as they could give birth to a child.
*Database: Guardian
Inspired by one of the fierce guardian deities known as the Komokuten, this armor set transcends mere protection to become an extension of Yasuke's warrior spirit.
*Database: Genba-o Castle and the Battle of Shizugatake
Genba-o Castle, located on the border of Echizen Province and Omi Province, was constructed as the headquarters for Shibata Katsuie prior to the Battle of Shizugatake. The layout of Genba-o is one of the best among mountain castles of that period. It remains in good condition to this day as the castle was never reoccupied after that battle. The name of the castle "Genba-o" comes from the fact that it was connected to the path that Sakuma Morimasa (Genba-no-jô) might have built to communicate with Katsuie.
After the death of Oda Nobunaga, Katsuie competed with Hashiba Hideyoshi for the position of successor. When Katsuie was stuck in Echizen territory by snowfall from the past winter, Hideyoshi struck at his allies in Omi, Mino and Ise provinces. When Shibata Katsuie was able to come to Genba-o Castle, he ordered his nephew, Morimasa, Maeda Toshiie, and other subordinates to attack Hideyoshi's fortresses in Omi Province, Shizugatake being one of them. Sakuma Morimasa fought hard despite encountering an unexpectedly large number of Hideyoshi's reinforcements. However, he was betrayed by Maeda Toshiie and ultimately suffered defeat. Katsuie retreated to Echizen, where he committed suicide at Kitanosho Castle in today’s city of Fukui.
The Battle of Shizugatake was the first major victory for Hideyoshi in consolidating his position as Nobunaga’s successor and the next great unifier of Japan. To highlight his achievement, he named seven of his personal vassals who played key roles in the battle "the Seven Spears of Shizugatake".
*Database: Harima
Harima province was not only a fertile region with vast plains facing the Inland Sea (Seto-naikai), but also a key intersection of sea and land routes, connecting the central region to the west. This area was controlled by the Hojo family, who held the supreme power in Japan during the Kamakura period.
Under the Muromachi shogunate, the descendants of Akamatsu Enshin (a small Harima lord who played an active role in supporting the first shogun) became feudal lords. In the early 16th century, their lord was only a young man and was under the care of the widow of the former Akamatsu chief, making her one of the few de facto female feudal lords. In order to keep her authority, she later replaced the young lord with his own heir: an 8-year-old boy. However, due to conflicts with vassals and divisions within the family, the Akamatsu gradually lost their power, and the province of Harima became divided among powerful warriors.
In 1568, Oda Nobunaga entered Kyoto with Ashikaga Yoshiaki, then immediately subdued these warriors, taking control of Harima province. However, when Yoshiaki severed ties with Nobunaga and entered Mori territory in 1576 to seek protection, the Mori forces subsequently invaded Harima. The following year, Nobunaga sent Hashiba Hideyoshi to Harima, where he conquered the region in 1580, despite a period of rebellion by Bessho Nagaharu at Miki Castle.
*Database: Kubi-jikken
Since ancient times, enemies defeated in battle were beheaded as proof of their meritorious deeds. It was during the post-battle Kubi-jikken, or "head inspection," that the heads of important figures were identified by the commander in order to recognize the merit of his vassals. When the identified head was that of a high-ranking commander, it became taimen ("face to face encounter"), different from kubi-jikken, which confirms the head of middle-ranking commander. Those who brought the head were asked to tell how they killed their enemies, and after their testimony was confirmed in some cases, they were given war credit. When necessary, the heads were shown to those who had betrayed and changed sides, or to enemy prisoners of war to confirm their names.
Before the inspection, the head is washed, styled, and made up, as to not look unsightly. Oda Nobunaga distinguished himself with the make-up of the heads of Azai Hisamasa and Nagamasa, as well as Asakura Yoshikage, and by displaying them at a banquet in 1574, which some consider to be as another memorial service-based on the custom of head makeup. After the identification, the head was either placed in a special container then given to the enemy, displayed in a public place for all to see and know of the death, or simply discarded. In the cases of low-ranking enemies, the names were not checked and only the number of people killed was confirmed by cutting off their nose or ear. The Ear Mound is the most famous tomb located in front of Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto, where the ears and noses of about 20,000 Korean and Chinese soldiers are buried after the invasion to the peninsula by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1597.
*Database: Puppeteers
Puppeteering troupes traveled between villages, moving from port to port and village to village where they performed at inns, the common rooms of shrines, and other places available. As a group, they were marginalized by those who were able to remain settled. The troupes were usually made up of several couples and their children. The performers made the dolls, manipulated them, danced, and sang. These troupes have existed since at least the 11th century.
Sometimes, these troupes were in the service of a Buddhist temple and contributed to the spread of their faith by telling pious stories or stories about miracles.
In the 13th and 14th centuries it was often women who performed the shows, and this was still the case in the 16th century. Each puppet was manipulated by a single person, who made it dance and sing. Sometimes women in the troupe also danced and sang while heavily made up. It also seems that women who manipulated the dolls were occasionally sex workers, as was often the case with dancers and storytellers at the time. It should be noted that these troupes frequently moved; therefore, they could provide information about the movements of armies, for example. By providing confidential information for a fee they were, in other words, acting as spies.
Spectators paid for the performance according to their means. Sometimes, but especially true for Noh theater, monasteries or lords paid the actors, and a collection was organized among the spectators.
*Database: Salt Production
Until the 13th century, salt was obtained from dried seaweed. According to accounts from the 8th century, the seaweed was repeatedly washed in jars and the saltwater collectedy was boiled in order to produce salt crystals Then in the 16th century, a more efficient method called agehama was developed. The technique used beach sand containing a particles of salt from the sea water.
Salt was mainly used for food preservation and for purification during religious rituals. From the Middle Ages until the end of the 16th century, women sold salt in temporary markets or in small local settlements, and sometimes in more distant towns. However, with the demographic growth and urbanization of the 16th century, demand for salt increased, and merchants began to buy salt in bulk from villages to sell it in towns where they sometimes owned a warehouse. Merchants did not produce salt they bought and sold. Sales of salt were subject to royalties paid in shares to the military or religious lords of a region who either resold the salt or reserved it for themselves, typically for use monastic rituals. [sic] In the 16th century, the trade system was still somewhat limited but would become better organized in the centuries that followed.
*Database: Sekihan
This rice and bean dish can be made with an antique strain of red rice or the more common white rice with a sprinkling of red beans. Since the color red carries the power to ward off evil spirits, Sekihan is a favorite temple offering for hungry deities.
*Database: Shamisen
The shamisen is a type of three-stringed lute with a long handle and a soundbox made of sandalwood. The body is covered with snakeskin or more commonly with dog or cat skin. It is played with an ivory plectrum used to strike or pluck the strings.
Originally from China, the shamisen was introduced to the provinces around Kyoto through Okinawa in the middle of the 16th century. Blind musicians were the first to use this instrument and by the early 17th century it had quickly spread throughout Japan. It was most prevalent in urban entertainment districts where it became the preferred instrument of courtesans.
The shamisen is usually played while sitting on a cushion (zabuton). Some Japanese rock bands use an electric shamisen, which produces sounds quite different from an electric guitar.
*Database: Shinobi of Iga and Koga
In the general context of 16th-century feudal wars, the inhabitants of Iga province and their neighbors in the Koga district established an original political structure led by local warriors and relying on the peasantry. These structures formed into small local republics. They were based on consultation between leaders and included oaths of allegiance from the local population. Importantly, the people of Iga did not act with a particular ideological perspective, but simply sought to create a form of autonomous governance that would ensure their freedom at the local level. It is likely that, since the 14th century, their leaders had formed auxiliary troops of mercenaries for the lords of neighboring provinces at war with each other and practiced methods of infiltration and guerrilla warfare. The method of waging war based on raids served them well when they were imprudently attacked in 1579 by Oda Nobukatsu, the son of Nobunaga, and they managed to rout the attacking forces. However, in 1581 when Nobunaga attacked Iga from several directions, with a considerable invasion force, Iga's resistance collapsed within a few weeks.
In general, the great feudal lords, especially those operating with the aim of unifying the country like Nobunaga and later Hideyoshi, considered these federations of small warriors as hindrances to their political project of absolute territorial domination and that is why they fought them one after the other. Their resistance was often met with fierce repression.
*Database: Sumo
Sumo is a form of bare-handed combat between two face-to-face combatants and can be linked to other forms of wrestling known in Mongolia or Korea. The winner will have made his opponent touch the ground or expelled him from the circular space formed by the dohyo, the space delimited for the fight.
Sumo combat was first reported in the 8th century imperial chronicles where they noted bare-handed fights practiced by deities. During the ancient period, sumo matches were organized in honor of the gods, for a ritual festival, or a court ceremony. As a result, the fights took place inside the sanctuary or even the imperial palace. The fighters were strong men but were not professionals.
As warriors emerged sumo became a training exercise between bushi. It could also be a game where, on occasion, warriors threw challenges at one another. In these instances, fights took place outdoors, usually in a meadow or cleared place without any sacred connotations. The circle itself was formed by the spectators.
From the 15th century onwards sumo became popular and it was during this time period that the dohyo appeared. These fights were often organized through patronage of a sanctuary in order to raise funds (kanjin zumo).
The fights organized by Oda Nobunaga brought together a large number of fighters. These events did not have a direct connection to religion despite being organized at Jôrakuji near Azuchi Castle. Considering the large number of combatants it is probable there were several dohyo. On this occasion, the wrestlers were divided for the first time into two teams, East and West.
Modern sumo is the heir of the sumo practiced during the Edo period. It was in this period where sumo became a frequent spectacle and wrestlers were affiliated with the stables where they trained. In the 18th century, rules were developed that established a wrestler's rank and the publication of those rankings (banzuke). Additionally, names were attributed to the different ways of fighting and defeating one's opponent.
*Database: The Invasions of Iga
In 1579, Oda Nobunaga's son, Nobukatsu, launched a major attack against the league of independant people of the province of Iga. To the warlord's dismay, he was repulsed by the people of Iga who made up a much smaller force of peasant fighters and local warriors. Nobukatsu had greatly underestimated the efficacy of the Iga people's military tactics, the strategic advantage their local knowledge afforded them, and their capacity for organization and mobilization. His father, occupied with Araki Murashige's rebellion, saw Iga's failed attack as an attempt by Nobukatsu to avoid sending his troops to the province of Settsu. Nobunaga sent his son an angry letter threatening to sever ties between them. It was only after Araki was defeated and peace was made with the Hongan-ji of Osaka that Nobunaga accepted his son's attack on Iga as legitimate.
Oda Nobunaga was not prepared to abandon the conquest of Iga, and in 1581, he launched a second invasion a force of 40,000 to 60,000 men attacking from four sides of the basin. His armies covered the province, drowning any notion of further revolt. With a ferociousness reserved for his fiercest enemies, Iga was utterly destroyed. In a matter of days, Nobunaga put an end to the political and social structures of Iga and its neighbors that had existed for nearly a
century. Despite their crushing defeat at the hands of Oda Nobunaga's modernized military, the historical and political significance of these autonomous communes cannot be ignored.
*Database: Tsuruga
The small port of Tsuruga, located on the eastern shore of Wakasa Bay in the former province ofEchizen was the main harbor connecting the provinces of Hokuriku and the northeastern coast of the Sea of Japan to Kyoto. Beginning in the 8th century, the port served as a point of entry for embassies from the Korean Balhae (Parhae) kingdom. The embassies received an official welcome at Tsuruga before travelling to the capital by land. Later, the port was frequented by merchants from the Song empire. Products (royalty revenues) from the Hokuriku provinces were unloaded at Tsuruga prior to being sent to Kyoto by land, or sometimes by way of Lake Biwa. The port was later controlled by the Ashikaga shogunate. In the 16th century it was dominated by the Asakura clan, who supported a funadoza (boatmans' guild) run by toimaru (wholesale merchants) who managed the administration of the port and its trade. In 1573, Oda Nobunaga seized control of Tsuruga. The city reached its peak in the Edo period as a storage site for goods arriving from the fiefs of Hokuriku and Tohoku, which were later sent to Kyoto or further on to Osaka by way of the Yodo river.
*Database: Wakasa
The province of Wakasa, together with Echizen to the east, form what is now Fukui prefecture. Given its geographical location (with the Sea of Japan to its north and Omi's Lake Biwa beyond the mountains to the south), Wakasa has been an important nodal point between Kyoto and the Sea of Japan since ancient times, just as Tsuruga has been to Echizen province.
The main port of Wakasa went through a period of transition before finally establishing at Obama in the 13th century. Besides the "Lake Biwa way," the land route from Wakasa to Kyoto through the Kutsuki Valley, was also an important transportation route. It was later known as Saba kaido (or "mackerel route") because it was said that the mackerel brought ashore at the port were sprinkled with a delicate layer of salt and then transported to Kyoto for a day and a night, where - when they arrived - they were perfect for making mackerel sushi, a Kyoto specialty.
Since the middle of the 15th century, the Takeda family were the feudal lords of Wakasa. Because of its proximity to Kyoto, they maintained political alliances with the Muromachi shogunate until the 16th century and continued cultural exchanges with Kyoto through their vassals. In 1568, the Asakura clan of Echizen effectively conquered the province of Wakasa by placing the young head of the Takeda family under their protection. However, it became the domain of Oda Nobunaga, who eliminated them in 1573 and Wakasa province was then entrusted to Niwa Nagahide.
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*Database: Arima Onsen
*Database: Arima Onsen

Revision as of 18:57, 24 March 2025

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  • Database: Phone call, Hotel La Perle

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  • Database: Japanese Gardens

[...] relaxation, strolling, and sometimes celebration.

But in the 14th and 15th centuries, Zen Buddhism led to the creation of a new garden style, characterized by an aesthetic of simplicity. This is reflected in the moss gardens of Saiho-ji in Kyoto and Tenryu-ji (one of the "Five Mountains" of Zen, centers of the Rinzai sect), which were designed by Muso Soseki (1275-1351), a great Zen monk. In these gardens, Soseki ingeniously arranged collections of standing stones to look like waterfalls.

Gradually, during the 15th century, small, all-mineral gardens were introduced (dry landscape gardens or kare sansui), designed to be viewed from a fixed point, unlike the strolling gardens of the past. Like the famous Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, these became places of meditation: five islands of stones set amidst a sea of sand, surrounded by an ochre-color wall. What is a garden without plants, flowers, and water? This is the apparent contradiction posed for all enlightenment-seekers who meditate here.

  • Database: Medieval Daily Markets

At the end of the Middle Ages, markets were typically held six times per month on the outskirts of towns or villages throughout Japan. Markets offered a variety of goods that were not available in stores in the town or village. Market days are, for example, only held on days with 1 and 6 (1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th), but thanks to the other markets held on other days of the month in the surrounding area, there can be one every day within a certain distance.

Thanks to the Ippen Hijiri-e, a painted scroll from the 14th century, we can understand that each market was equipped with roofs supported by poles, where stalls were set up on market days. At each marketplace, stalls were set up using posts that supported a roof which marked that seller's designated area. Each spot was reserved for traders who traveled regular routes between markets in neighboring towns and villages. As such, it was rather difficult for new sellers to find a good spot to display their stock. They were typically regulated to the fringes where pedestrian traffic was much lower, and [...]

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