КАК САМУРАИ СРАЖАЛИСЬ за объединение Японии: Сэнгоку Дзидай | Ночные Истории | Выпуск 58

15th century. Central power in Japan is collapsing, the emperor is a puppet, and the shogun is powerless. The "Warring States Period" (Sengoku Jidai) begins—150 years of chaos, when hundreds of daimyo and their samurai armies fought each other for dominance. It was a time of unprecedented cruelty and brilliant strategy, when a peasant could become a ruler, and a noble samurai could die from a simple infantryman's bullet. How did Oda Nobunaga, the son of a minor provincial warlord, crush his powerful neighbors and change the rules of war? Why did his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose from peasant to supreme ruler, ban commoners from bearing arms? And how did the cunning Tokugawa Ieyasu outlive them all and establish a shogunate that ruled Japan for 250 years? The story of a century when Japan endured the crucible of civil war to forge a rigid centralized system that would shape its destiny for centuries to come.