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Roughly equivalent to 'Feudal Japan', any series set before (or around the beginning of) the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_periodMeiji period|Meiji era]] when the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun |Shoguns]] were deposed. The time subdivisions most often found in Japanese media include the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku_periodSengoku period|Sengoku period]] (the "Warring States" era of civil war, from about 1467-1573), the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_periodEdo period|Edo period]] (after Japan was united under the Tokugawa shogunate, 1603-1868)<ref>For the curious, the 30 years in between those two is called the Azuchi-Momoyama period; important in history, not so much in media.</ref>, and the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Tokugawa_shogunateLate Tokugawa shogunate|Bakumatsu/early Meiji era]] (see above). Think [[Akira Kurosawa]].