Historiography of the Three Kingdoms edit

Modern scholarship edit

References

References edit

Sengoku period edit

Backburner

Nomenclature edit

Background edit

  • hold of the ashikaga shogunate was never that great, daimyo structure, feuding feudal lords already before the onin war

Onin War edit

Trends edit

Mobilization edit

  • rise of the ashigaru

New weaponry and tactics edit

  • takeda cavalry
  • firearms, the "asian military revolution"
  • Japanese castles and siege

The role of religion edit

  • Buddhism and Ikko ikki
  • Christianity

Gekokujō edit

  • take existing wiki

Regional conflicts edit

Kinai: the capital region edit

Chūgoku: Western Japan edit

Kantō: Eastern Japan edit

Tōhoku: Northern Japan edit

Chūbu: Central Japan edit

Kyushu edit

Shikoku edit

The maritime world edit

  • Piracy
  • Murakami
  • warfare in the islands, the seas, and onto china

The Three Unifiers edit

Oda Nobunaga edit

Toyotomi Hideyoshi edit

Tokugawa Ieyasu edit

Historiography edit

Cultural legacy edit

Textual history of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms edit

Alternate title: History of...

Historical basis edit

Three Kingdoms historiography and early folk traditions edit

  • records of the three kingdoms, annotations, zizhi tongjian
  • shift of views during the song dynasty
  • worship of guan yu, zaju

Precursors to the novel edit

  • Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language (Sanguozhi Pinghua)

Authorship edit

Dating edit

Luo Guanzhong edit

  • Luo Guanzhong's version, delve into his life and motivations
  • Liu Bei as a Mencian paragon as a foil to contemporary Ming absolutism (themes)

Mao Zonggang edit

  • mao lun and mzg, the trend of commentaries and dufa

Translations edit

Japanese edit

Korean edit

Thai edit

References edit

Cao Cao's battles edit

Years-old infoboxes
Battle of Pingyang
Part of the wars of the Three Kingdoms
DateLate 202
Location
Result Cao Cao victory
Belligerents
Cao Cao
Ma Teng
Yuan Shang
Southern Xiongnu
Commanders and leaders
Zhong Yao
Jia Kui
Ma Chao
Gao Gan
Huchuquan
Guo Yuan
Battle of Hedong
Part of the wars of the Three Kingdoms
Date205
Location
Result Cao Cao victory
Belligerents
Cao Cao
Ma Teng
Gao Gan
Zhang Cheng's bandits
Hedong gentries
Commanders and leaders
Du Ji
Ma Teng
Gao Gan
Zhang Cheng
Wei Gu
Fan Xian

Massacre of the Eunuchs edit

Years-old infoboxes

Background edit

The massacre edit

Aftermath edit

In fiction edit

References edit

  • fire over luoyang
  • biographical dictionary
  • deC's zizhi tongjian
  • cambridge history of china
  • eunuch literature