"Japanese Fortifications and strongholds" Topic

"Fortunately for the economic survival of Japan, in subsequent decades defensive strategies, particularly in large-scale campaigns, began to center on entrenchments and fortifications, rather than on evasion and refusal of battle. Whether bushi perceived a problem and responded directly to it, or simply stumbled onto a solution for other reasons, is difficult to assess. Whatever their genesis, however, in the event, the new tactics helped prevent recurrences of devastation on the level of the Tadatsune episode.

The first significant campaign in which fortifications played a major role appears to have been Minamoto Yoriyoshi's so-called Former Nine Years' War against Abe Yoritoki and his sons, waged from 1055 to 1062. This contest took place in Mutsu, in the northeast, a region where warriors were heir to a three century-old tradition of establishing stockades as bases from which to control the local population. The Abe's strategy throughout the conflict centered on ensconcing themselves and their followers behind bulwarks and palisades, in an effort to outlast Yoriyoshi's patience and resolve. Such tactics played on the eagerness of Yoriyoshi's troops to get back as soon as possible to their own lands and affairs. As Yoriyoshi's lieutenant Kiyowara Takenori warned him:…"

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Not bad…

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I bought these and could not be more impressed.

Imho… this is one of the best jobs of Japanese Village ever…!

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