Ashikaga shogunate

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Stele marking the southwestern corner of the former site of the chief governmental offices of the Muromachi bakufu at Muromachi-Imadegawa.

The Ashikaga Shôgunate

The Ashikaga were descended from Minamoto Yoshiie, whose son Yoshikuni settled in the Ashikaga district of Shimotsuke Province. Yoshikuni's first son took the name Nitta while his second took Ashikaga. The Ashikaga became very wealthy under the Hôjô Regents and their defection to the Imperial cause in 1333 sealed the Hôjô's fate. Ashikaga Takauji then turned against Emperor Go-Daigo and in 1336 was named the 1st Ashikaga shôgun. The Ashikaga were seriously weakened after the Ônin War (1467-77) and eventually eclipsed by Oda Nobunaga in 1573, who banished the last Ashikaga shôgun, Yoshiaki, from Kyoto.

Name Life Reign
1305-1358 1338-1358
1330-1367 1359-1367
1358-1408 1368-1394
1386-1428 1394-1423
1407-1429 1423-1425
1425-1428
1394-1441 1429-1441
1434-1443 1441-1443
1436-1490 1443-1473
1465-1489 1473-1489
1466-1523 1490-1493
1480-1511 1493-1508
1508-1521
1511-1550 1521-1546
1536-1565 1546-1565
1564-1568 1568
1537-1597 1568-1573

Notes

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