During the Sengoku period (Japan), local samurai lords, once high ranking officials of Hosokawa clan who was a shugo (military governor) in the area, controlled their own territories within Tanba Province after Hosokawa clan had weakened.
戦国時代(日本)には、守護の細川氏が弱体化した丹波地方にはかつての細川氏の被官であった国人領主がそれぞれ割拠した。