lasted around century consisted several continually warring states following contact portuguese tanegashima isle japanese adopted several technologies cultural practices visitors whether military area arquebus european style cuirasses european ships religion christianity decorative art language integration japanese western vocabulary culinary portuguese introduced tempura valuable refined sugar central government largely reestablished oda nobunaga toyotomi hideyoshi azuchi momoyama period although start date often given broad terms period begins oda
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