 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nguva yeSengoku yakatangwa neHondo yeŌnin muna 1467 iyo yakaparadza hurongwa hwehutongi hweJapan pasi peAshikaga Shogunate. Vakuru vehondo nemapoka akasiyana-siyana esamurai vakarwira kudzora Japan musimba risina simba, nepo Ikkō-ikki yakabuda kuzorwisa kutonga kwesamurai. Kusvika kwevanhu vokuEurope muna 1543 kwakaita kuti arquebus ishandiswe muhondo dzeJapan, uye Japan yakaguma kuva nyika yaitongwa neChina muna 1549. Oda Nobunaga akaparadza Ashikaga Shogunate muna 1573 ndokutanga hondo yekubatanidza zvematongerwe enyika nechisimba, kusanganisira Hondo yeIshiyama Hongan-ji, kusvika parufu rwake muHonnō-ji Chiitiko muna 1582. Mutsivi waNobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, akapedza basa rake rokubatanidza Japan uye akasimbisa utongi hwake nokugadzirisa zvinhu zvakawanda. Hideyoshi akatanga kurwisa Korea neJapanmuna 1592, asi kukundikana kwavo pakupedzisira kwakakuvadza mukurumbira wake asati afa muna 1598. Tokugawa Ieyasu akatsiva mwanakomana muduku waHideyoshi uye akatsiva Toyotomi Hideyori paHondo yeSekigahara muna 1600 ndokutangazve hurongwa hwehupfumi pasi peTokugawa Shogunate. Nguva yeSengoku yakaguma apo vakavimbika kuna Toyotomi vakakundwa pakukombwa kweOsaka muna 1615. 