Short Summary of Sengoku Daimyo or Sengoku Busho

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Sengoku Daimyo / Sengoku Busho

Sengoku Daimyo was the powerful or influential samurai worriers or lords who competed leading samurai as the shogun from late Muromachi Period (after the war of Onin) to Sengoku Period (the Warring States Period) in Japan. And also Sengoku Daimyo was a kind of sovereign states.
Some provincial military governors’ power declined and others improved to be the Sengoku Daimyos. The daimyos tried to get rid of the aristocratic feudal powers from their territories and to centralize to rule, so they tried to control their retainers and sumurai worriers in their territories, supported the industries to develop, established laws to centralize, built their castle towns and exploited mineral resources to enrich and strengthen their power.
The developed areas near Kyoto (the capital city of Japan in Sengoku Period), many new heroes appeared after they had defeated the military governors that it was called Gekokujo in Japanese, on the other hand, the provincial military governors became the Sengoku Daimyo in rural areas. Hojo in Sagami, Oda in Owari, Mori in Aki and Nagasokabe in Tosa were all defeated the governors to be the daimyo, and Date in Oshu, Takeda in Kai and Imagawa in Suruga were the provincial governors.
The first Sengoku Daimyo was the Hojo Family. After the 100 years of the period, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi reconstructed to unify the daimyos under their control, finally all of them were reorganized in the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Now the word 'Sengoku Daimyo' points out samurai families in Sengoku Period, but it also points out samurai worriers in that period usually called Sengoku Busho.

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List of Sengoku Daimyos (Family)

Leading Sengoku Daimyos

Ashikaga Shogun Family	Oda in Owari
Toyotomi (Hashiba) from Owari	Tokugawa (Matsudaira) in Mikawa

Sengoku Daimyos in Tohoku Region

Kakizaki in Ezo	Ashina in Mutsu
Iwaki in Mutsu	Osaki in Mutsu
Kasai in Mutsu	Soma in Mutsu
Date in Mutsu	Tamura in Mutsu
Tsugaru in Mutsu	Nanbu in Mutsu
Nikaido in Mutsu	Nihonmatsu in Mutsu
Rusu in Mutsu	Akita in Dewa
Onodera in Dewa	Sagae in Dewa
Daihoji in Dewa	Tozawa in Dewa
Mogami in Dewa

Sengoku Daimyos in Kanto Region

Edo in Hitachi	Oda in Hitachi
Satake in Hitachi	Daijo in Hitachi
Tagaya in Hitachi	Mizutani in Hitachi
Ashikaga Kanto Kubo	Tamura in Mutsu
Tsugaru in Mutsu	Takagi in Shimousa
Chiba in Shimousa	Nihonmatsu in Mutsu
Yuki in Shimousa	Takeda in Kazusa
Masaki in Kazusa	Satomi in Awa
Utsunomiya in Shimotsuke	Ozeki in Shimotsuke
Otawara in Shimotsuke	Oyama in Shimotsuke
Sano in Shimotsuke	Nasu in Shimotsuke
Minagawa in Shimotsuke	Yamanouchi Uesugi in Kamitsuke
Shirai Nagao in Kamitsuke	Soja Nagao in Kamitsuke
Tatebayashi Nagao in Kamitsuke	Yura in Kamitsuke
Ogigayatsu Uesugi in Musashi	Ota in Musashi
Kira in Musashi	Narita in Musashi
Yanada in Musashi	Hojo in Sagami

Sengoku Daimyos in Koshinetsu Region

Takeda in Kai	Uesugi in Echigo
Nagao in Echigo	Ogasawara in Shinano
Kiso in Shinano	Sanada in Shinano
Suwa in Shinano	Takanashi in Shinano
Nishina in Shinano	Murakami in Shinano

Sengoku Daimyos in Tokai Region

Imagawa in Suruga	Kira in Mikawa
Shiba in Owari	Endo in Mino
Saito in Mino	Toki in Mino
Anekoji in Hida	Ema in Hida
Kanamori in Hida	Miki in Hida
Kanbe in Isa	Kitabatake in Ise
Seki in Ise	Tamaru in Ise
Nagano in Ise	Kuki in Shima

Sengoku Daimyos in Hokuriku Region

Shina in Ecchu	Jinbo in Ecchu
Cho in Noto	Hatakeyama in Noto
Yusa in Noto	Togashi in Kaga
Asakura in Echizen	Takeda in Wakasa

Sengoku Daimyos in Kinki Region

Asai in Omi	Gamo in Omi
Kyogoku in Omi	Kuchigi in Omi
Rokkaku in Omi	Ochi in Yamato
Tsutsui in Yamato	Matsunaga in Yamato
Hatakeyama in Kawachi	Miyoshi in Kawachi
Yusa in Kawachi	Ikeda in Settsu
Itami in Settsu	Nakagawa in Settsu
Hosokawa in Settsu	Hatano in Tanba
Isshiki in Tango	Yamana in Tajima
Akamatsu in Harima	Bessho in Harima

Sengoku Daimyos in Chugoku Region

Yamana in Inaba	Ukita in Bizen
Uragami in Bizen	Hosokawa in Bicchu
Kobayakawa in Bingo	Yamanouchi Shudo in Bingo
Kikkawa in Aki	Mori in Aki
Ouchi in Subo	Sue in Subo
Masuda in Iwami	Misumi in Iwami
Yoshimi in Iwami	Amago in Izumo
Nanjo in Hoki

Sengoku Daimyos in Shikoku Region

Hosokawa in Awa	Miyoshi in Awa
Kagawa in Sanuki	Kozai in Sanuki
Sogo in Sanuki	Kono in Iyo
Doi in Iyo	Aki in Tosa
Ichijo in Tosa	Chosogabe in Tosa
Motoyama in Tosa	Utsunomiya in Iyo
Saionji in Iyo

Sengoku Daimyos in Kyushu Region

Akizuki in Chikuzen	Shoni in Chikuzen
Tachibana in Chikuzen	Otomo in Bungo
Arima in Hizen	Uku in Hizen
Omura in Hizen	Chikushi in Hizen
Nabeshima in Hizen	Matsura in Hizen
Ryuzoji in Hizen	Aso in Higo
Kikuchi in Higo	Sagara in Higo
Ito in Hyuga	Shimazu in Satsuma
Kimotsuki in Osumi	Tanegashima in Osumi
Nejime in Osumi	So in Tsushima