Ikkō-ikki

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Ikkō-ikki (一向一揆; "single-minded leagues") were armed military leagues that formed in several regions of Japan in the 15th–16th centuries, composed entirely of members of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism. In the early phases, these ikki leagues opposed the rule of local shugo (governors) or daimyō (lords), but over time as their power consolidated and grew, they courted alliances with powerful figures in the waning Ashikaga shogunate until they were crushed by Oda Nobunaga in the 1580s. Ikkō-ikki mainly consisted of priests, peasants, merchants, and jizamurai (local military rulers) who followed the sect, but they sometimes associated with non-followers. The ikkō-ikki included organisations of sōhei "monk warriors", similar to the lay or semi-lay military orders of medieval Christianity. They were at first only slightly organized. However, during the reforms of the monshu Jitsunyo and, later, under his grandson Shōnyo, the temple network enabled more efficient and effective troop mobilization...

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