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Libretti of Figures in Japanese History Ashikaga Takauji to Ashikaga Tadayoshi (Ashikaga Takauji to Ashikaga Tadayoshi: The Establishment of Authority in the Midst of Upheaval)

This is a book in the 100-volume series Libretti of Figures in Japanese History, which takes up one hundred people who have lent colour to Japan’s history. This book deals with Ashikaga Takauji, the first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and his younger brother Ashikaga Tadayoshi, who took charge of administrative affairs. They both lived in the first half of the fourteenth century.

Ashikaga Takauji is often understood as having been in conflict with his younger brother Tadayoshi. Tadayoshi took charge of political affairs, while Takauji discharged the bare minimum of his obligations as the head of a warrior family, granting rewards to his soldiers. But about thirteen years after the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate, Tadayoshi found himself in political strife with supporters of his elder brother Takauji. After losing his position and then being reinstated several times within

Ashikaga Takauji

First shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1305–1358)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ashikaga.

Ashikaga Takauji

In office
1338–1358
Monarchs
Preceded byPrince Narinaga(Kenmu Restoration)
Succeeded byAshikaga Yoshiakira
BornAugust 18, 1305
Uesugi-shō, Ayabe, Kyoto or
Kamakura, Kanagawa, or
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
DiedJune 7, 1358(1358-06-07) (aged 52)
Masuya-chō, Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Relations
Children
Parents
Signature
AllegianceMinamoto clan (Seiwa Genji)
Branch/serviceAshikaga clan

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] He was a male-line descendant of the samurai of the (Minamoto) Seiwa Genji line (meaning they were descendants of Emperor Seiwa) who had settled in the Ashikaga area of Shimotsuke Province, in

Ashikaga Takauji

Few figures in Japanese history are as controversial as Ashikaga Takauji, a man whose actions brought down the HôjôShikken, made the dream of Imperial restoration a reality and then tore down that dream in a war that would leave the Court divided and the country in the hands of a new warrior government.

The Ashikaga clan

In 1331, as Emperor Go-Daigo was preparing to throw off the yoke of Kamakura rule, Takauji was a powerful landholder in the Kantô region. His clan, the Ashikaga, was of Seiwa Genji stock, the same branch of the Minamoto family that had produced Yoritomo. Minamoto Yoriyasu (d. 1157), grandson of Minamoto Yoshiie, had settled in Shimotsuke and taken the name of his holding: Ashikaga-no-sho. Yoshiyasu's son Ashikaga Yoshikane (d. 1199) had joined Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1180 and served him in the Genpei War. Yoshikane also happened to be married to a daughter of Hôjô Tokimasa, and so the Ashikaga thrived in the years following Yoritomo's death in 1199. In fact, five of the next seven generations of Ashikaga leaders would marry Hôjô ladies, to

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