seized the opportunity to strengthen their position. At the end of the fifteenth century, those shugo-daimyo who succeeded remained in power. Those who had failed to exert control over their deputies fell from power and were replaced by a new class, the sengoku-daimyo, who arose from the ranks of the shugodai and jizamurai.

Sengoku-daimyo

Whereas the shugo daimyo of the Muromachi period received their legitimacy from the shogunate, the sengoku daimyo

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