ōnin war

As a lot of us know, the Sengoku Jidai was a period when the country of Japan was in constant state of civil wars for nearly 150 years. Born from the Onin War, the collapse of Ashikaga authority led to Japanese clans fight each other for regional dominance, while the Shogun in Kyoto was...

The Sengoku period that kept Japan divided for over a century was precipitated by a succession crisis that erupted into a conflict known as the Ōnin War. What if this succession crisis - and the resulting war - hadn't happened?