- The
jizamurai (地侍) were peasant-warriors that
emerged in 15th-century ****an
Muromachi period. They
often used
their relatively small plots of land for...
- and grandfather)
skipped over,
jizamurai of Aki,
retainer of
Ashikaga shogunate. Mōri
Hirofusa (毛利広房, 1347–1385),
jizamurai of Aki,
retainer of Ashikaga...
- class, the sengoku-daimyo, who
arose from the
ranks of the
shugodai and
jizamurai.
Among the
sengoku daimyō (戦国大名) were many who had been shugo-daimyō,...
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commit secret raids on
their enemies. In the
chaos following the Onin War,
jizamurai from the Kōka and the Iga
Province began to
engage in
guerilla warfare...
- system, the
great temples and shrines, the sōhei, the
shugo and jitō, the
jizamurai and
early modern daimyō. Each
shogunate reflected the
necessity of new...
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threats to Iga.
These threats and the
banditry necessitated that the
local jizamurai (high-ranking
peasant warriors) form an
alliance and
develop specialized...
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existed as
early as the 12th century. In the
unrest of the
Sengoku period,
jizamurai families, that is,
elite peasant-warriors, in Iga
Province and the adjacent...
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origins to it. The
confederation emerged in the 15th
century when
local "
jizamurai" (government
administrators technically of
peasant class)
formed mutual...
- ****an by
Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In this period, many
emerging forces like
Jizamurai call
themselves samurai.
Hideyoshi himself was born as a son of a peasant-ashigaru...
- Mōri
Toyomoto (毛利 豊元, 1444–1476) was a
Jizamurai of the
province of Aki, and
father of Mōri Hiromoto. He is
known as the
grandfather of the Mōri Motonari...
