After the Onin War (1467), it was the age of the civil war, but also the age when various arts such as Noh play, tea ceremony, the art of flower arrangement, a garden (landscape gardening), architecture, and renga (a linked poem) were in full bloom, and these arts gradually spread among common people creating many varieties of Japanese culture which have continued until now.
応仁の乱（1467年）以降、戦乱に明け暮れる世の中になったが、一方では能、茶道、華道、庭園、建築、連歌など多様な芸術が花開いた時代で、それらは次第に庶民にも浸透し、今日まで続く日本的な文化を数多く生み出した。