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Ashikaga City Hall. Ashikaga (足利市, Ashikaga-shi) is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture of Honshu, Japan. As of 1 June 2023, the city had an estimated population of 140,036, in 62,123 households [1] and a population density of 788 persons per km 2. The total area of the city is 177.76 square kilometres (68.63 sq mi).
The Ashikaga clan governed Japan from the Imperial capital of Heian-kyō as de facto military dictators along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class. [3] The 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 ...
The 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.
Ashikaga Gakkō (足利学校, "Ashikaga School") is Japan's oldest standing academic building. It is located in the city of Ashikaga , Tochigi Prefecture , about 70 kilometres north of Tokyo . It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1928.
The Ashikaga clan (Japanese: 足利氏, Hepburn: Ashikaga-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan and dynasty which established the Ashikaga shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1333 [1] to 1573. [2] The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan , deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga in Shimotsuke Province (modern-day ...
Ashikaga era (足利時代 Ashikaga jidai), a period of Japanese history related to the eponymous dynasty; Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara) (足利氏 Ashikaga-shi), a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Fujiwara clan; Ashikaga, Tochigi (足利市 Ashikaga-shi), a city in Japan Ashikaga Station (足利駅 Ashikaga eki), a train station in the city ...
Ashikaga Domain (足利藩, Ashikaga-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Shimotsuke Province (modern-day Tochigi Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Ashikaga jin'ya in what is now part of the city of Ashikaga. Ashikaga was ruled through most of its history by a junior branch of the Toda clan.
Ashikaga Station is served by the Ryōmō Line, and is located 38.2 km (23.7 mi) from the starting point of the line at Oyama, and 53.5 km (33.2 mi) from Takasaki. The preceding station of Ashikaga Flower Park is 6.2 km (3.9 mi) away and the following station of Yamamae is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) away.