Some members of the ''sonnô'' movement, followers of [[Hirata Atsutane]], are known to have decapitated or otherwise vandalized statues of the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shoguns]], seeing the Ashikaga as having betrayed or otherwise wronged the emperor back in the 14th century.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 165.</ref> | Some members of the ''sonnô'' movement, followers of [[Hirata Atsutane]], are known to have decapitated or otherwise vandalized statues of the [[Ashikaga shogunate|Ashikaga shoguns]], seeing the Ashikaga as having betrayed or otherwise wronged the emperor back in the 14th century.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 165.</ref> |