Person1436 – 1490
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Eighth Muromachi shogun (r. 1449–1473), whose succession dispute grew into the Ōnin War; builder of the Silver Pavilion and patron of Higashiyama culture
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A succession dispute over the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, entangled with feuds among powerful shugo houses, set off the Ōnin War in Kyoto, which lasted eleven years from 1467. The shogunate’s authority collapsed and the Warring States (Sengoku) period began, with rival daimyo fighting amid gekokujō — “the low overthrowing the high”.
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
- Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800
The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning