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Unlike shugo, who were appointed from the central power of samurai estate or Shogunate, shugodai were locally appointed. [1] At the brink of the Sengoku period, most shugo strengthened their grip on power, leading to the effective disappearance of their shugodai. However, taking advantage of the weakening of their Shugo due to war or other ...
Some shugo lost their powers to subordinates such as the shugodai, while others strengthened their grip on their territories. As a result, at the end of the 15th century, the beginning of the Sengoku period, the power in the country was divided amongst military lords of various kinds (shugo, shugodai, and others), who came to be called daimyōs.
Modern reevaluators such as Akira Imatani, Amano Tadayuki, or Yamada Yasuhiro published several books on the Miyoshi government and the final period of the Muromachi shogunate, which had close ties to it, has renewed the academic interests to research further about the topic of Nagayoshi and the Miyoshi clan reign before Nobunaga.
He specialized in studies of Greek and Roman mythology. He received his education at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig , obtaining his PhD in 1868. While at Leipzig, from encouragement by Friedrich Ritschl , he along with fellow students Wilhelm Wisser , Richard Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche , formed a student philological association ...
The home of a gokenin. A gokenin (御家人) was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods. [1] In exchange for protection and the right to become jitō (manor's lord), a gokenin had in times of peace the duty to protect the imperial court and Kamakura, then political capital of Japan.
In Greek mythology, the Keres (/ˈkɪriːz/; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. [citation needed] Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and ...
Ogyges, also spelled Ogygus (Ancient Greek: Ancient Greek: Ὠγύγης or Ὤγυγος, romanized: Ogygos), is a primeval mythological ruler in ancient Greece, generally of Boeotia, [1] but an alternative tradition makes him the first king of Attica.
The whole having been translated into Greek, was deposited in one of the public libraries, and Eupraxis was dismissed loaded with rewards." (Smith, Dictionary) The Greek "name" Eupraxis simply means "right actions", a familiar goal in discussions of ethics, and an amusingly apt name for the finder.