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World at War

Sengoku Period

1467–1615 Japan Status: ended Casualties: Hundreds of thousands

A century and a half of warring states. Nobunaga began the unification with arquebus volleys at Nagashino (1575); Hideyoshi completed it; Ieyasu sealed it at Sekigahara (1600) and the Siege of Osaka (1615), founding the 250-year Tokugawa peace.

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Belligerents

  • Oda Nobunaga
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • rival daimyō

Casualties

Hundreds of thousands

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.