* 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( d. 1597 )

Musashi's father, Munisai, also fought against a master of the Yoshioka school and won 2 out of 3 bouts in front of the shogun at the time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki who granted him the title of " Unrivaled Under The Sun ".

* 1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( b. 1537 )

In 1568, Ashikaga Yoshiaki went to Gifu to ask Nobunaga to start a campaign toward Kyoto.

Yoshiaki was the brother of the murdered thirteenth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, Yoshiteru, and wanted revenge against the killers who had already set up a puppet shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihide.

Yoshiaki was made the 15th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate.

Furthermore, Asakura Yoshikage had also protected Ashikaga Yoshiaki, but had not been willing to march toward Kyoto.

* October 9 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( b. 1537 )

* August 27 – Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.

* December 5 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( d. 1597 )

Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun.

When the shogun Yoshiteru was assassinated in 1565, an ambitious daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, seized the opportunity and installed Yoshiteru's brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun.

The Ashikaga shogunate was finally destroyed in 1573 when Nobunaga drove Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.

Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi requested that Yoshiaki accept him as an adopted son and the 16th Ashikaga Shogun, but Yoshiaki refused.

# Ashikaga Yoshiaki, r. 1568 – 1573

The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga.

Although a start date of 1573 is often given, in more broad terms, this period begins with Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto in 1568, when he led his army to the imperial capital in order to install Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th, and ultimately final, shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, and lasts until the coming to power of Tokugawa Ieyasu after his victory over supporters of the Toyotomi clan at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

The Ashikaga had their headquarters in the Muromachi district of Kyoto, and the time period during which they ruled is also known as the Muromachi Period.

* Ashikaga Yoshimitsu retires as shogun of Japan and is succeeded by his son, Ashikaga Yoshimochi.

* Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga shogunate.

This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from Muromachi Street of Kyoto where the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence.

The Ashikaga Shogunate is the weakest of the three Japanese bakufu governments.

In 1995 Michio Yonekura argued that this portrait is not of Yoritomo but of Ashikaga Tadayoshi, the brother of Ashikaga Takauji.

* 1392: The southern court surrenders to shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the empire is unified again

* 1397: Kinkaku-ji is built by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

* 1489: Ginkaku-ji is built by Ashikaga Yoshimasa

* 1350 — Tadayoshi, excluded from administration, turns priest ; Tadayoshi's adopted son, Ashikaga Tadafuyu is wrongly repudiated as a rebel.

The story of Ashikaga Takauji, Emperor Go-Daigo, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kusunoki Masashige from the Genko rebellion to the establishment of the Northern and Southern Courts is detailed in the 40 volume Muromachi period epic Taiheiki.

* The Taiheiki ( Japanese: 太平記 ) is a Japanese historical epic written in the late 14th century that details the fall of the Hōjō clan and rise of the Ashikaga, and the period of war ( Nanboku-chō ) between the Northern Court of Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto, and the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino, which forever splintered the Japanese Imperial Family.

Kan ' ami and his son Zeami Motokiyo brought Noh to what is essentially its present-day form during the Muromachi period ( 1336 to 1573 ) under the patronage of the powerful Ashikaga clan, particularly the third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Among Kamatari's descendants are Fumimaro Konoe the 34th / 38th / 39th Prime Minister of Japan and Konoe's grandson Morihiro Hosokawa the 79th Prime Minister of Japan ( who is also a descendant of the Hosokawa clan via the Ashikaga clan of the Minamoto clan ).

was the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate and is generally considered the founder of the Kanō school of painting which is the most influential in Japanese history with a 400 year dominance that is peerless in world history.

Early in the conflict, Go-Daigo was driven from Kyoto, and the Northern Court contender was installed by Ashikaga, who established a new line of shoguns.

Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shogun.

Eventually, the great-grandson of Yoshitane would be installed as a puppet shogun for a brief period ; but external power struggles would unseat him, and the Ashikaga dynasty of shoguns would end.

In the future, power struggles from outside the clan would also lead to a brief period in which the great-grandson of Yoshitane would be installed as a puppet leader of the Ashikaga shogunate.

In an obvious reply to this move, Ashikaga Takauji's younger brother Tadayoshi without an order from the Emperor escorted another of his sons, eleven-year-old Nariyoshi ( a. k. a. Narinaga ) to Kamakura, where he installed him as Governor of the Kōzuke province with himself as a deputy and de-facto ruler.

Shōkō-tennō was only 12 years old when he assumed the role of formal head of the Daïri ; but " Go-Komatsu-in " had direction of the court the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi was charged with the general superintendence of affairs.

* 1413 ( Ōei 20 ): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi fell ill, and so he sent an ambassador to the Ise Shrine to pray for the return of his health.

* 1423 ( Ōei 30, 2nd month ): Shogun Yoshimochi retired in favor of his son, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, who was 17 years old.

This situation reached its peak under the rule of the third Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

* Daiei 6, in the 12th month ( 1526 ): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu invited archers from neighboring provinces to come to the capital for an archery contest.

* Bunki 1 ( 1501 ): The former Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimura was exiled ; and he retired to Suō Province.

Internal squabbling, however, prevented them from acting swiftly to legitimatize their claim to power, and it was not until 1568 that they managed to install Yoshiteru's cousin, Ashikaga Yoshihide, as the next Shogun.

Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu ( 1358 – 1408 ) promoted cultivation of green tea in the Uji area.

Because of his inner strength and the katana skills that he was known to have practiced regularly, Yoshiteru was called the " Kengo Shogun " ( 剣豪将軍 ) and was closer to being a samurai and a warlord than any shogun since Ashikaga Takauji.

Kinkaku-ji's history dates to 1397, when the villa was purchased from the Saionjis by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and transformed into the Kinkaku-ji complex.

In 1563, he came to Japan to engage in missionary work, and in the following year arrived in Kyoto, meeting Ashikaga Yoshiteru who was then Shogun.

* Sato, S. " The Ashikaga Shogun and the Muromachi Bakufu Administration ", in Japan in the Muromachi Age.

The mission was successful ; and Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was reported to have been favorably impressed by this initial embassy.

The Ōnin conflict began as a controversy over who would become shogun after the retirement or death of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

This was regarded by the Ashikaga Shogun as an act of rebellion, and thus the Ashikaga and their supporters were forced to try to stop it.

* 1443 Ashikaga Yoshimasa becomes Shogun.

When the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa had a son in 1464, Yamana took this as an opportunity to oppose Hosokawa further, supporting the child as heir to the Shogunate.

The Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, was considering retiring.

As the family theater troupe grew in popularity, Zeami had the opportunity to perform in front of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

After Ashikaga Yoshinori became Shogun, he became hostile toward Zeami.