Throughout Candlestick Analysis you are going to find many war-like references. Between 1500 and 1600 the territories of today’s Japan were at constant war. Each daimyo (feudal lord) was in constant contention to take over their neighbor. This one hundred year period is known as Sengoku Jidai or the “Age of Country at War”. This was a definite period of turmoil. It slowly came to order in the early 1600’s through three dynamic generals – Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and Leyasu Tokugawa. Their combined leadership prowess has become legendary folklore in Japan’s history.