戦国時代 - The Age of Civil Wars -The Sengoku period in Japan (1467-1615) is one of the time periods we associate most with samurai. It is a time period that is largely featured in movies, tv shows, books, etc. The Sengoku Period was the "Age of Civil Wars" as many wars were fought within Japan over territory borders.Sengoku-Jidai the band captures the essence of this time period through the lense of modern day rock n roll. Instead of fighting with swords on the battle field, these warriors fight with instruments on the stage.
Sengoku-Jidai is a Visual Kei (or VKei) band. VKei is a broad genre of rock music in Japan, that emphasizes the importance of visual elements in music and performance. VKei is an umbrella term that covers a wide variety of music and fashion styles.Sengoku-Jidai's style (both visually and musically) combines traditional Japanese elements with modern rock elements.
Stage outfits are based on traditional clothing, with modern twists.
Music contains traditional Japanese instruments, musicality, and lyrics tell traditional tales - combined with modern rock guitar, bass, and drum techniques, and powerful rock vocals.
Sengoku-Jidai bring the Sengoku Era to life in modern times.
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Members
The members of Sengoku-Jidai all come from a JRock/Visual Kei background and were all well established before forming the band.
Therefore, they use unique stage names just for Sengoku-Jidai.
Fans refer to the members by both their Sengoku names, and their real names.
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Photo of Yuki/Nao-A the vocalist of Sengoku-Jidai. He has chin length hair and is wearing a traditional Japanese robe.

Lead VocalsSengoku Name: Nao-A
Real Name: Yu+Ki
Sengoku Color: White
Birthdate: 4/14
Previous Bands: Jurassic, Ever+Last, Sixx Fourteen, and Drowning. He also has solo music. Sengoku-Jidai is his only currently active band.
Extra:
- Every Friday he does a livestream via Twitcasting where he talks about various topics and sometimes sings. It's usually at 23:00 (11PM) JST and runs about one hour. Link below.
- Yu+Ki has a YouTube channel where he uploads covers of various songs. Link below.
- Yu+Ki is a long time hardcore fan of the band Siam Shade.
- Yu+Ki enjoys camping and goes camping frequently, often with friends, his manager Taro, and sometimes with band member Junji.

Photo of Kazuma/Kz the leader, guitarist, and co-vocalist of Sengoku-Jidai. He has short hair, painted lines on his face, is wearing smurai-esque clothes with dark fur, and is holding a long traditional pipe up to his mouth.

Guitar + VocalsSengoku Name: Kz
Real Name: Kazuma
Sengoku Color: Red
Birth Date: 2/26
Previous Band: Siam Shade. He also has solo music. Sengoku-Jidai is his only currently active band.
Extra:
- Kz is Sengoku-Jidai's leader
- Kazmua has an interest in cars, particularly Italian cars, which he has featured on his Instagram.
- Kazuma has a TikTok account where he posts guitar playing, singing, and dancing videos.

Photo of JuKen/Da-Te the bassist of Sengoku-Jidai. His hair is shaved short on one side and is long and curly on the other side. He is wearing a mask over the lower half of his face, and traditional samurai style clothes.

BassSengoku Name: Date
Real Name: Ju-Ken
Sengoku Color: Blue
Birth Date: 6/27
Other Bands:
- Ju-Ken has been a member of several bands and does support/session bass work for several artists
- Active Band: My Way My Love
- Hiatus Band: Vamps
- Previous Bands: DRLS, Quintillion Quiz
- Associated Acts: Juon, Anis, Maki Ohguro, Julia Mazda, and several others.
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Extra:
- Ju-Ken has partnered with Luthierie Leather and has several custom JKN leather goods including a bag and travel cases.
- He has a French Bulldog named Apollo after the Apollo spacecrafts
- Ju-Ken enjoys riding motorcycles and gardening in his free time

Photo of JunJi/S.N.D. The drummer of Sengoku-Jidai. He has his signature medium length orange hair, a small goatee, and is wearing a traditional style Japanese robe.

DrumsSengoku Name: S.N.D
Real Name: Junji
Sengoku Color: Orange
Birth Date: 3/30
Other Bands:
Like Ju-Ken, Junji has been a member of several bands as well as doing support/session drums for a variety of artists. He also has solo music
Active Band: Bull Zeichen 88
Previous Band: Siam Shade
Associated Acts: TMR, Acid Black Cherry, Luz, Linked Horizon, and more.
Extra:
- Junji is well known for his stylistic bright orange hair and overall orange color association.
- Junji streams on YouTube every day. He tries to make his streams an hour on average, but some days are shorter due to his busy schedule. (link below).
- Junji enjoys riding motorcycles and camping in his free time. He likes to look at the stars and has an interest in space/astronomy.

See Below For Sengoku-Jidai's Discography.
Their website, linked on the homepage, has the links of where to listen to and buy their discography.
Below, I am showing the albums and tracks with the original names, and romanization + translations where necessary.

Album cover of Sengoku-Jidai's first single kyoukaranbu. The members are stylized in Japanese manga/cartoon style. They look fierce in their traditional outfits. They are all holding traditional swords, and the vocalist is holding a modern microphone.

Single: 「狂歌乱舞／常翔」(2017)
The single title is the same as the two tracks.
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1. 狂歌乱舞 (kyoukaranbu) (tr. merrymaking via boisterous dancing)
2. 常翔 (jyoushou) (tr. soaring)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 2nd single Sakura. Artwork shows members stylized like a manga/cartoon. They are in their traditional outfits and grinning. Smoke from Kz's pipe swirls around them. Nao'A holds a paper fan and sakura petals breeze around him.

Single: 「SAKURA／輪廻の華」(2017)
The single title is the same as the two tracks.
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1. SAKURA (Flower blossoms on Japanese cherry trees)
2. 輪廻の華 (rinne no hana) (tr. flowers rotating in the wheel of life/samsara or reincarnation flowers. this refers to the way cherry blossoms will fall off the trees in large amounts, like a storm, which represents the cycles of life.)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 3rd single Lonely. Artwork shows members stylized like a manga/cartoon. They are in their traditional outfits in the rain. They look serious with their swords drawn.

Single: 「Lonely／戦国時代―The age of civil wars―」 (2017)
The single title is the same as the two tracks.
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1. Lonely
2. 戦国時代―The age of civil wars― (Sengoku Jidai -The age of civil wars-) (it is a self named song)

Album cover of Sengoku-Jidai's first album "First Battle". Cover shows a samurai from the chest down, the Japanese word for love is visible on his belt. His hand is on his sword at his side. Unsheathed but ready.

First Album (2017)
「初陣－First battle－」
初陣 (Uijin) means First Battle
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Tracklisting:
1. 戦友 (Senyuu) (tr. Comrades)
2. 道化師 (Doukeshi) (tr. Clown/Jester)
3. 戯言 (Tawagoto) (tr. Nonsense/Practical Joke/Prank)
4. 夢の果て (Yume no hate) (tr. End of the Dream)
5. freewheeling ～自由闊達～ (freewheeling -jiyuu kattatsu-)(tr. basically they put freewheeling in both English and Japanese)
6.Dancing Samurai Soul
7. Whether true or false
8. Monster
9. 愛染明王 (Aizenmyouou) (a love deity/figure in Buddhism)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 4th single Senjyo. Artwork shows traditional banners like ones samurai would carry to war. on them can be seen the band's name, symbol, the word love in japanese, and the crescent moon symbol.

Single: 「戦場／いざ参れ！」(2018)
The single title is the same as the two tracks.
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1. 戦場 (Senjō) (tr. battlefield)
2. いざ参れ! (iza maire!) (tr. let’s go! come on! - calling the warriors to battle)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 5th single Sengoku enka. Artwork shows an ornate traditional floor lamp with flowers decorating it in front of the wall of a traditional house.

Single: 「戦国演歌」 (2019)
The title, Sengoku Enka, is the first song of the 3 track single.
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1. 戦国演歌 (sengoku enka) (tr. enka is a style of storytelling music a la troubadours)
2. 桜吹雪 君を偲び (sakurahubuki kimiwoshinobi) (tr. in the falling cherry blossoms, memories of you)
3. 戦国音頭 (sengoku ondo) (tr. sengoku march)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 6th single yotogi no hana. Artwork shows the close up of a blooming flower called queen of the night. it is bright compared to the dark background.

Single: 「夜伽の華」2019
The title, Yotogi no Hana, is the same as the first track of the 3 track single.
The flower pictured is called "queen of the night" as it only blooms at night. It grows on cacti in South America.
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1. 夜伽の華 (yotogi no hana) (tr. the flower of the night vigil/watcher or the flower that keeps watch through the night)2.天女物語 (tennyo monogatari) (The Tale of the Heavenly Woman)
(The Tennyo (天女, lit. "Heaven(ly) Woman/Women"), are a divine kind of spiritual beings found in Japanese Buddhism that are similar to western valkyries, angels, nymphs or fairies”3. 消え惑ふ (kiemadou) (tr. at the point of vanishing. disappearing)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 7th single isho. Artwork shows the close up of Japanese writing, the lyrics of the song, vertically in traditional ink and the traditional style.

Single: 「遺書」(2019)
The title, isho, is the same as the first of the two tracks.
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1. 遺書 (isho) (tr. last will & testament)
2. ちぎれ雲 (chigiregumo) (tr. scattered clouds)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 2nd Album Shippujinrai or gale and thunder. as such, the album artwork shows lightning striking fiercely across the night sky.

Second Album (2019)
「疾風迅雷」
ShippuJinrai
(tr. Gale & Thunder)
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1. 銀狼 (Ginro) (tr. Silver Wolf)
2. 傾奇者 ～華となれ～ (Kabukimono -Hana to nare-)
(tr. kabukimono is an early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza then hana to nare is lit “become a flower” so kind of like this figure becoming famous or this delinquent who blooms brightly or something along those lines)3. 戦国Big Bang (Sengoku Big Bang)
4. 張り子の虎 (Hariko no tora) (tr. papier-mache tiger)
5. Ge・ko・ku・jo
6. 宵花火 霞隠れ (Yoihanabi kasumigakure) (tr. evening fireworks hidden in the haze)
7. 独眼 (Dokugan) (tr. one-eyed)
8. 涙星 (Namidaboshi) (tr. star's tears. could also be shooting star)
9. 暴太鼓 (Abaredaiko) (tr. lit violent taiko but i think it refers to the drumming in the streets when an army is going to/coming from war)
10. KAZAHANA ( the title is already romanized but in the lyrics the kanji 風花 is used - which is like a flurry of flower petals falling. the romanization in capital letters emphasizes how fast the petals are falling, like a whirlwind.)

Cover from Sengoku-Jidai 3rd Album Sengoku. Artwork shows a sword who's blade has been broken, the handle part flaying away from the rest of the blade. green faire engulfs the broken blade of the sword.

3rd Album (2021)
「戦国」
Sengoku
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1. 副目せよ! (Fuku mokuseyo!) (tr. I got two translations: Don’t be a fool! & Take a second look! So it has something to do with giving things a second/proper look before acting or else you could do something foolish. Like making fast assumptions.)2. 蜃気楼のユメ (Shinkirō no yume) (tr. mirage of the dream/mirage of dreams/dream mirage)3. だるまさんがころんだ (Daruma-san ga koronda) (tr. Daruma-san fell - children's game similar to Statues or Red Light Green Light)4. 激切 (Gekisetsu) (tr. sharp cut - ie. severing of connections or relations/ to cut someone off suddenly and with severe finality)5. 澄美麗 (Sumire) (tr. Sumire written as スミレ as in the lyrics refers to violet color and violet flowers. The kanji of the title can translate as “clear and beautiful” )6. つぐみ (Tsugumi) (tr. song thrush as in the bird)