A report on Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji, Muromachi period and Nanboku-chō period
The Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府), also known as the Muromachi shogunate (室町幕府), was the feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.
- Ashikaga shogunateAshikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏) was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.
- Ashikaga TakaujiThe Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代, Nanboku-chō jidai, "North and South court period", also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period), spanning from 1336 to 1392, was a period that occurred during the formative years of the Muromachi (Ashikaga) shogunate of Japanese history.During the early period, there existed a Northern Imperial Court, established by Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto, and a Southern Imperial Court, established by Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino.
- Nanboku-chō periodThe 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.
- Ashikaga shogunateHis rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended with his death in 1358.
- Ashikaga TakaujiThe period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi bakufu or Ashikaga bakufu), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi shōgun, Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336) of imperial rule was brought to a close.
- Muromachi periodThe Ashikaga shogunate began the Nanboku-chō period between the Pro-Ashikaga Northern Court in Kyoto and the Pro-Go-Daigo Southern Court in Yoshino until the South conceded to the North in 1392.
- Ashikaga shogunateThe early years from 1336 to 1392 of the Muromachi period are known as the Nanboku-chō or Northern and Southern Court period.
- Muromachi periodEmperor Kōmyō of the illegitimate Northern Court (see below) was installed as emperor by Takauji in opposition to the exiled Southern Court, beginning the turbulent Northern and Southern Court period (Nanbokuchō), which saw two emperors fight each other and which would last for almost 60 years.
- Ashikaga TakaujiThis Kamakura tradition was prestigious and it set the precedent for what followed in the Muromachi period.
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Kenmu Restoration
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The Kenmu Restoration (建武の新政) was a three-year period of Imperial rule in Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period from 1333 to 1336.
Go-Daigo launched a second uprising, and with the assistance of the defected Kamakura general Ashikaga Takauji, defeated the Kamakura Shogunate at the siege of Kamakura in 1333.
The Kenmu Restoration was ultimately overthrown when Takauji became Shōgun and founded the Ashikaga Shogunate in 1336, beginning the "Northern and Southern Courts" period and the Muromachi period.
Shogun
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The title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
Around 1334–1336, Ashikaga Takauji helped Daigo regain his throne in the Kenmu Restoration.
In 1336 Daigo was banished again, in favor of a new Emperor, leading to the creation of the new Ashikaga shogunate.
The Ashikaga had their headquarters in the Muromachi district of Kyoto, and the time during which they ruled is also known as the Muromachi period.
For the first fifty years of the Shogunate the Ashikaga were unable to assert power over the entire country, as the descendants of Go-Daigo formed a rival court challenging their authority in the Nanboku-chō period.