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The Ashikaga dynasty of shoguns in Japan had grown so weak that a succession dispute provided the trigger for a civil war
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The Onin War started in February 1467, when the Yamana family set fire to a Hosokawa mansion.
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The Hosokawa family retaliated by attacking a Yamana rice shipment. They then burned the mansion of one of the Yamana generals, a month later
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The war had become so devastating that most of Kyoto was in ruins.
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Yamana Sozen led an attack on the Hosokawa party inside a Buddhist monastery.
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A calm came over Kyoto when both sides stayed on their sides. Howokawa later attacked Yamana territory and he convinced the emperor and the shogun to denounce the Yamana family as rebels.
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After fighting since 1467 both Yamana Sozen and Hosokawa Katsumoto died.
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After 11 years the war had finished because each side had had the strength to continue.
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After the war Japan was devastated by the war. However the power of independent local leaders increased