A Map of Kyoto in the early 1500s
Sengoku Period (1490-1573)
With the influx of trade and the growing division of the warlords, Kyoto was consistently the centre of revolts, attacks and banditry. To overcome this, machigumi (neighbourhood groups) formed themselves as autonomous governments and police forces; the north became the centre of the nobility and wealthy, the south a bustling commercial district.
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