A report on Kamakura and Ashikaga Takauji
Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada joined their cause, and laid siege to Kamakura.
- Ashikaga TakaujiHe was in his turn defeated in Koshigoe by Ashikaga Takauji, who had come in force from Kyoto to help his brother.
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Ashikaga shogunate
4 linksThe feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.
The feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.
The Ashikaga shogunate was established when Ashikaga Takauji was appointed Shōgun after overthrowing the Kenmu Restoration shortly after having overthrown the Kamakura shogunate in support of Emperor Go-Daigo.
The Hōjō clan rose to power and governed Japan from the city of Kamakura, while the Emperor and his Imperial Court remained in the official capital city of Heian-kyō as largely symbolic figures.
Kamakura shogunate
3 linksThe feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333.
The feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333.
Yoritomo governed Japan as military dictator from the eastern city of Kamakura with the Emperor of Japan and his Imperial Court in the official capital city of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) as figureheads.
The Kamakura shogunate was overthrown in the Kenmu Restoration under Emperor Go-Daigo in 1333, re-establishing Imperial rule until Ashikaga Takauji overthrew the Imperial government and founded the Ashikaga shogunate in 1336.
Shogun
3 linksThe title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
The title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
Minamoto no Yoritomo seized power from the central government and aristocracy and by 1192 established a feudal system based in Kamakura in which the private military, the samurai, gained some political powers while the Emperor and the aristocracy remained the de jure rulers.
Around 1334–1336, Ashikaga Takauji helped Daigo regain his throne in the Kenmu Restoration.
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
3 linksAshikaga Tadayoshi (足利 直義) was a general of the Northern and Southern Courts period (1337–92) of Japanese history and a close associate of his elder brother Takauji, the first Muromachi shōgun.
The Ashikaga were a samurai family from Kamakura having blood ties with the Seiwa Genji, Minamoto no Yoritomo's clan.
Japan
2 linksIsland country in East Asia.
Island country in East Asia.
In 1185, following the defeat of the Taira clan in the Genpei War, samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo established a military government at Kamakura.
Go-Daigo was defeated by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336, beginning the Muromachi period (1336–1573).
Ashikaga Motouji
2 linksWarrior of the Nanboku-chō period.
Warrior of the Nanboku-chō period.
The fourth son of shōgun Ashikaga Takauji, he was the first of a dynasty of five Kantō kubō, Kamakura-based representatives in the vital Kamakura-fu of Kyoto's Ashikaga regime.
Ashikaga Yoshiakira
2 linksThe second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
The second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
Yoshiakira was the son of the founder and first shōgun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji.
He spent his childhood in Kamakura as a hostage of the Hōjō clan.
Nitta Yoshisada
1 linksSamurai lord of the Nanboku-chō period Japan.
Samurai lord of the Nanboku-chō period Japan.
He famously marched on Kamakura, besieging and capturing it from the Hōjō clan in 1333.
Long an enemy of Ashikaga Takauji, Nitta Yoshisada is often blamed for the split between the Northern and Southern Courts, as he fought against the Ashikaga and for the emperor, Emperor Go-Daigo.
Hōjō Tokiyuki
1 linksSamurai of the Hōjō clan who fought both for and against the Imperial Court.
Samurai of the Hōjō clan who fought both for and against the Imperial Court.
He re-entered Kamakura in 1335, forcing Ashikaga Tadayoshi to flee before he was forced to flee himself by Tadayoshi's elder brother and future shōgun Ashikaga Takauji.
Kanrei
1 linksHigh political post in feudal Japan; it is usually translated as shōguns deputy.
High political post in feudal Japan; it is usually translated as shōguns deputy.
Following the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, and abolition of the Rokuhara Tandai position, Ashikaga Takauji created the post of Kantō Kanrei, or Shogun's Deputy in the East (Kantō generally refers to the area around and including modern Tokyo).
In the first weeks of 1336 Ashikaga Takauji left Kamakura for Kyoto in pursuit of Nitta Yoshisada.