Having lost the economic base as well as political power, persons in the Kizoku class suffered from dire poverty in the era from the middle of the Muromachi period to the Sengoku period (period of warring states) (in Japan).
政治権力も経済基盤も失った貴族階層は、消滅するには至らなかったものの、室町中期から戦国時代(日本)にかけて特に困窮を極めた。