the local princes (the daimyo). Internecine feudal wars that began in the mid-15th century led to the division of the country into separate, almost independent principalities and to the complete weakening of the power of the Ashikaga dynasty, whose last representative was overthrown by Oda ...
In 1336, Ashikaga Takauji established his own shogunate in Kyoto. The Ashikaga Shogunate is also sometimes known as the Muromachi shogunate because the shogun's palace was in the Muromachi district of Kyoto. From the start, Ashikaga rule was bedeviled by controversy. A disagreement with the Empero...
Japan—died Jan. 22, 1913, Tokyo), the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)—the overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor—a relatively peaceful transition.
The Emperor of Japan is the monarch and the head of the Imperial Family of Japan. Under the Constitution of Japan, he is defined as the symbol of the Japanese state and the unity of the Japanese people, and his position is derived from the will of the pe
"We have perhaps 450 of these horses after we gift them to the Emperor and Shogun," Tokitsuna noted. "That many horses charging at once makes an impressive sight, but the enemy charges with many times those numbers." "At last count, we could mount 2,500 men," Ichijou said. ...
Tomona becomes the collateral damage of a secret project designed to win the Ashikaga shogun the upper hand in an off-screen conflict. Japan has been plunged into its era of “Southern and Northern Courts”, rival regimes each claiming to back the true emperor. And some bright spark has com...
It is the head temple built by Ashikaga Takauji, a ruling shogun in 1339. The buildings of the Tenryuji temple may have been lost in fires and wars over the years; the garden remains in its original state, however. The great garden designer, Muso Soseki, who was also the temple’s fir...
Like with most swords that were valued as exquite treasures, the Ashikaga family gained possession of Ōdenta³. There is no specific details as to when and how they acquired it, except for a rumor (more on this in another section below). Later, the 15th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshia...
A powerful warrior clan like the Ashikaga or Takeda, one of their own internal vassals like the Kudou or Nagasaki, or even a resurgence of the Imperial court, although the latter barely has any military power outside of Kyoto and they're more interested in working with the Shogunate...
【Game Introduction】 As the Ashikaga Shogunate wanes, warlords arise and the fog of warfare engulfs the era of Sengoku. In this era, a host of generals and daimy…