Yamana Sozen, the Red Monk. In 1466, with a succession struggle brewing within the shogunate, Yamana gathered his troops and marched to Kyoto: nominally to support the shogun's brother's claim to the throne, but fundamentally as part of an ongoing feud with his son in law, Hosokawa. After more than a year of tense, sometimes violent brinksmanship, with brawls in the streets and wood-and-paper Japanese buildings put to the torch, the conflict would finally erupt into the Onin War.

A decade of brutal urban conflict later would see Yamana and Hosokawa both dead, the Japanese Imperial capital laid in ruins, and the power of the shogunate over the provincial lords was broken. The event marked the start of the Sengokujidai, Japan's Warring States Period.https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7990105376974605171691015799.webp