To solve the problem of shogi allowing players to freely arrange pieces 6 in their own fields behind screens 25 that it provides no fun because the player having the first move is absolutely advantageous with lance pieces or the like for attacking the opponent's king piece in case its position is overt and it is very hard for the defending player to reverse the one-sided offensive. 自陣を屏風25で隠して駒6を自陣に自由に並べられる将棋にすると、王駒の位置がわかっていては香車などにより先手が絶対有利で一方的に勝負が決まってしまい、一方的に攻められた時には逆転する事が非常に困難であり、これでは全くつまらない。 - 特許庁
Not only applying raw power against the enemy's armed forces, but also day-to-day attacking and burning or "karibataraki (to send a small group of soldiers to an opponent's territory to cut wheat and rice off their fields and take it back (a kind of tactic that was used during the Sengoku Period) " (or "aotagari (literally, cutting off rice plants while it is still green)") to cut out the supply of foods as a kind of harassment to the opponent are included in such conflicts and as a result, escalation from such conflicts led to a large-scale military operation
この中には、敵兵力に対して実力を行使するだけでなく、隣接勢力に対する嫌がらせの意味も含め、日常的な焼討ちや、食料を断つ“刈り働き”(あるいは“青田刈り”)も含まれており、結果として、そのエスカレーションが、大規模な軍事行動を誘引する面もあった。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス