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Topic: Genkō War

Genkō War

Years: 1331 - 1333

The Genkō War (1331–1333) also known as the Genkō Incident, is a civil war in Japan that marks the fall of the Kamakura shogunate and the end of the power of the Hōjō clan.

The war thus precedes the Nanboku-chō period and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate.

Genkō is the name of the Japanese era corresponding to the period 1331-1334.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)