Editing Kyoto (section)

===Feudal period===
In the [[Sengoku period]], the city suffered extensive destruction in the [[Ōnin War]] of 1467–1477, and did not really recover until the mid-16th century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh061p075.pdf |title=Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan* |last=Stephen |first=Morillo |date=1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913234726/http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh061p075.pdf |archive-date=September 13, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During the war, battles between samurai factions spilled into the streets, and came to involve court nobility (''[[kuge]]'') and religious factions as well. Nobles' mansions were transformed into fortresses, deep trenches dug throughout the city for defense and as firebreaks, and numerous buildings burned. The city has not seen such widespread destruction since.

In the late 16th century, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] reconstructed the city by building new streets to double the number of north–south streets in central Kyoto, creating rectangle blocks superseding ancient square blocks. Toyotomi also built earthwork walls called {{Nihongo|''odoi''|御土居}} encircling the city. [[Teramachi Street]] in central Kyoto is a Buddhist temple quarter where Toyotomi gathered temples in the city.
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File:Kanō Eitoku - Rakuchū rakugai zu (Uesugi) - right screen.jpg|''Rakuchū rakugai zu'', a 16th-century depiction of central Kyoto including [[Gion Matsuri]] floats (center) and [[Kiyomizu-dera]] (upper right)
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