Person1305 – 1358
Ashikaga Takauji
Warrior who founded the Muromachi shogunate; after helping overthrow Kamakura he broke with Emperor Go-Daigo, set up the Northern Court in Kyoto and became shogun in 1338
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After the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji broke with Emperor Go-Daigo, set up a Northern Court in Kyoto in 1336 and became shogun in 1338. The civil war against the Southern Court at Yoshino lasted until Ashikaga Yoshimitsu reunited the courts in 1392.
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- Emperor Go-Daigo1288 – 1339
Japanese emperor (r. 1318–1339) who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate and launched the Kenmu Restoration; driven out by Ashikaga Takauji, he set up the Southern Court at Yoshino
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu1358 – 1408
Third Muromachi shogun (r. 1368–1394), who reunited the Northern and Southern Courts in 1392, was invested by the Ming as “King of Japan” to open the tally trade, and built the Golden Pavilion
Themes this person appears in
- Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500
The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon