The 1488 incident in which Togashi Masachika, the shugo (military governor) of Kaga Province, was killed by Jodo Shinshu followers led by Rennyo, and the subsequent founding of the "land owned by peasants" that lasted about a century in Kaga. It began when Togashi Masachika, wary of the expanding power of Honganji followers within Kaga, began to persecute them. In response, Rennyo's sons and Honganji-faction priests organized the faithful, and an uprising said to number 200,000 attacked Masachika at Takao Castle and drove him to suicide. Thereafter Kaga became a land governed not by a shugo daimyo but by the autonomous organization of Honganji faithful — the only case in Japanese history of an autonomous state by peasants (that is, the believer class) lasting nearly a century. The "land owned by peasants" persisted until 1580, when it was finally subjugated by Oda forces under Shibata Katsuie and Sakuma Morimasa.