Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358) [1] also known as Minamoto no Takauji was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. [2] His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan , and ended with his death in 1358. [ 3 ]
June 8 – King Edward III of England seizes the Isle of Man from Scottish control. [6] June 19 – Ashikaga Takauji leads his army into Kyoto as part of the Kenmu Restoration. July 7 – The reign of Emperor Kōgon of Japan, first of the Northern Court (Ashikaga) Pretenders, ends.
The emperor's inefficient rule led to one of his greatest generals, Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358), to betray him in 1335. This established the Northern Court, named after its location in Kyoto, which was north of Go-Daigo's court. The conflict between Go-Daigo and the Ashikaga clan is known as the Northern and Southern Courts disturbance ...
Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利 義詮, July 4, 1330 – December 28, 1367) was 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.
The Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府, Ashikaga bakufu), also known as the Muromachi shogunate (室町幕府, Muromachi bakufu), was the feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.
Takauji fled to Kyūshū, but the following year, after reassembling his army, he again approached Kyōto. Kusunoki Masashige proposed a reconciliation with Takauji to the emperor, but Go-Daigo rejected this. He ordered Masashige and Yoshisada to destroy Takauji. Kusunoki's army was defeated at the Battle of Minatogawa.
Takauji was nominally shōgun but, having proved not to be up to the task of ruling the country, for more than ten years Tadayoshi governed in his stead. [4] The relationship between the two brothers was however destined to be destroyed by an extremely serious episode called the Kannō Incident, an event which takes its name from the Kannō era (1350–1351) during which it took place and ...
[3] [5] [6] Takauji believed the military class had the right to rule and considered himself not a usurper but, since the Ashikaga descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, rather a restorer of Minamoto power. [2] When the Hōjō garrison at Rokuhara was destroyed in 1333, he immediately stepped in and installed there his office . [2]