1582 Honnō-ji Incident

SAMURAI MAP

Japanese history, read from the map

Seventy-six years from the arrival of firearms to the Siege of Osaka — shifting domains, and the 1,385 castles they left behind.

See the maps

Follow who held what, year by year, from 1540 to 1615 — province by province and district by district.

Start from a turning point

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1,385 castles across Japan, browsable by prefecture and by castle. Keeps still standing, stone walls alone, and sites where only the ground remains.

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About this site

Control of each province and district in the Sengoku period has been turned into year-by-year data and placed on the map.

Read as a list of dates, history tells you what happened and where. It does not show you how power moved. A map does that at a glance.