Know your station and know sufficiency.
身の程を知り、分限を守るべし。
Military Strategists
Hōjō Sōun
The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest (1432-1519). Hojo Soun rose from obscure origins to seize Izu and Sagami provinces through cunning rather than force, establishing the template of the 'self-made warlord' that defined Japan's century of civil war.
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