Born Then1467–1590
Life during the Sengoku period
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
After the Ōnin War burned Kyoto (1467–1477), Japan split into domains ruled by warlords who fought each other for over a century. Peasants served as foot soldiers, and some villages and temple communities armed themselves. Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi reunified the country by 1590.
Deaths: unknown.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from our model, estimated from the sources.
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