Sengoku Series -- Episode 2: The Onin War

In this episode I give a brief history of Japan from ancient times to the medieval period, and discuss the causes and the events of the Onin War, the conflict that sparked the chaos and anarchy of the Sengoku period. I hope you learn a thing or two!
Links:
SamuraiWiki Onin War entry: wiki.samurai-archives.com/inde...
The Onin War on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cn...
Paul Varley's book on the Onin War: astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/d...
Mary Berry's book on the war in Kyoto: astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/d...
A book that includes the exploits of Kusunoki Masashige: astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/d...

[@PoseidonXIII]

Thanks so much for making this! There are barely any videos on You tube about Japanese history, especially medieval and early modern history.

[@RemmySkye]

Hey I am in the middle of watching your video. I'm liking it so far but I just wanted to say so far that perhaps when discussing the Soga/Fujiwara situation it would have been well to mention that the Fujiwara weren't really new kids on the block so to speak because it kind of sounded like that but that they were long time top servants as the Nakatomi clan and how Nakatomi Kamatari was given the name Fujiwara as a reward. The other thing and where I just stopped the video to make this comment was where you just spoke about Kusunoki Masashige. You mentioned how he had been long using guerrilla warfare and it's true, especially against the Hojo but then you said he died in battle committing seppuku when ordered to directly engage the Hojo. You seem to really know your stuff so I'm sure you know where I'm going but to anyone else, Go-Daigo (Kusuonkis Emperor) actually won the war against the Hojo. Kusunoki survived that war, he too prevailed so he did outlive the Hojo as well. It was the later conflict where Kusuonki fell, by that time the war was about Go-Daigo and his restored government versus the Ashikaga and disenchanted samurai. Go-Daigo stubbornly demanded Nitta Yoshisada and Kusunoki face the Ashikaga brothers and their allies (the Ko, Hosokawa, Akamatsu etc) at Minatogawa and it was in that battle where the famous Kusunoki fell