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The Sengoku period was not an anarchotyranny like ours but it does seem to have been a period where the sanctity of the law drastically diminished in a single generation. Violent confrontations between rival mobs were the modus vivendi
The idea was, a force of 200 descends on a manor and threatens to execute the wife and children unless they’re paid off. 200 clients assemble and the manor and threaten to kill the hostage-takers, about 3 ppl on each side are killed and then there is arbitration
I don’t know exactly how many times this kind of confrontation happened, but what is striking is that about 10 yrs passed between the point where ppl were trying to do illegal things but were in the end dissuaded by legal arguments, and pure rule of the strongest
the casualty rates are also fairly striking. while nothing compared to the bloody pitched battles of the middle Sengoku period, 1.5% in a single day of low-lvl negotiated counter-mobilization requires non-trivial bravery and quickly approaches hunter-gatherer violent death rate
