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The Ashikaga were a samurai family from Kamakura having blood ties with the Seiwa Genji, Minamoto no Yoritomo's clan.
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However, every shogun from the Minamoto, Ashikaga and Tokugawa families had to be officially recognized by the emperors, who were still the source of sovereignty, although they could not exercise their powers independently from the Shogunate.
* Imperial Prince Sadasumi ( 貞純親王 ) ( 873 – 916 ) – father of Minamoto no Tsunemoto ( 源経基 ), founder of the Seiwa Genji, from whom the Kamakura shogunate and the Ashikaga shogunate were both descended, as well as from whom the Tokugawa shogunate claimed descent
The Ashikaga then decided to permanently stay in Kyoto, making Kamakura instead the capital of the ( or ), a region including the provinces of Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimōsa, Hitachi, Kozuke, Shimotsuke, Kai, and Izu, to which were later added Mutsu and Dewa, making it the equivalent to today's Kanto, plus the Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.
For reasons that are unclear, possibly because Ashikaga was the de facto leader of the powerless Minamoto clan, while the Hōjō clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated, Ashikaga turned against the Kamakura bakufu, and fought on behalf of the Imperial court.
The loss of both political clout and economic base deprived the Imperial court of much of its power, which were then assumed by the Ashikaga shoguns.
After Yoshimitsu however, the structural weakness of the Ashikaga bakufu were exposed by numerous succession troubles and early deaths.
The Ashikaga shogunate's foreign relations policy choices were played out in evolving contacts with the Joseon Dynasty on the Korean peninsula and with Imperial China.
Although the Ashikaga shogunate had retained the structure of the Kamakura bakufu and instituted a warrior government based on the same social economic rights and obligations established by the Hōjō with the Jōei Code in 1232, it failed to win the loyalty of many daimyo, especially those whose domains were far from Kyoto.
The ensuing period of Ashikaga rule ( 1336 – 1573 ) was called Muromachi from the district of Kyoto in which its headquarters – the – were located by third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1378.
They were aided by Ashikaga Takauji, a constable who turned against Kamakura when dispatched to put down Go-Daigo's rebellion.
However, Matsunaga Hisahide and the three member council of Miyoshi, the Miyoshi Triumvirs, who wanted to rule just as Nagayoshi had, were willing to go to any lengths to remove Yoshiteru from the power and to have Ashikaga Yoshihide as the puppet shogun.
When these buildings were constructed, Ashikaga Yoshimasa employed the styles used at Kinkaku-ji and even borrowed the names of its second and third floors.
The many and serious political errors made by the Imperial House during this three year period were to have important repercussions in the following decades and end with the rise to power of the Ashikaga dynasty.
They were aided by, among others, future shogun Ashikaga Takauji, a samurai who had turned against Kamakura when dispatched to put down Go-Daigo's rebellion.
The biggest rewards were given to samurai, among them Nitta Yoshisada, the man who had destroyed the Kamakura shogunate, and Ashikaga Takauji.
He was a 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 present day Tochigi Prefecture.
The Hōjō were first betrayed by a vassal, Ashikaga Takauji.
The main conflicts that contributed to the outbreak of the civil war were the growing conflict between the Hōjō family and other warrior groups in the wake of the Mongol invasions of Japan of 1274 and 1281 and the failure of the Kemmu Restoration, which triggered the struggle between the supporters of the imperial loyalists and supporters of the Ashikaga clan.
Vassalage ties were either established by the Ashikaga or there was a risk of losing a potential warrior to another warrior hierarchy controlled, at best, by emerging shugo lords loyal to the Ashikaga, and at worst by rival imperialist generals.
The Kobayakawa family became loyal vassals when they were entrusted with defending Ashikaga interests in the province of Aki province after Takauji had retreated to Kyūshū in 1336.
The bureaucratic organs of the early regime were under the separate jurisdiction of the Ashikaga brothers Takauji and Tadayoshi, creating a bifurcated administration.
Under his leadership, and that of the kanrei Hosokawa Yoriyuki's, the regime succeeded in integrating the shugo lords in the 1360s and ' 70's: shugo branch families of the Ashikaga were employed within the government bureaucracy.
Ashikaga and samurai
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.
On November 17, 1335 Tadayoshi issued a message in his brother's name asking all samurai to join the Ashikaga and destroy Nitta Yoshisada.
The Court, meanwhile, had done the opposite, ordering samurai from all provinces to join Yoshisada and destroy the two Ashikaga.
The campaign was therefore enormously successful for the Ashikaga, with huge numbers of samurai rushing to join the two brothers.
* Hosokawa Akiuji, samurai general in the service of the Ashikaga Northern Court, during Nanboku-cho period
The was a Japanese samurai clan, descended from Emperor Seiwa ( 850-880 ) and a branch of the Minamoto clan, by the Ashikaga clan.
As in vassalage ties between the Ashikaga shoguns and the local samurai, the tie between the shoguns and the shugo lords was intermediary in a similar sense: in the world of competing loyalties, the Ashikaga shoguns by appointing warriors to shugo posts endeavored to tie these men closer to themselves.
The first Ashikaga shogun, Takauji, created ties with samurai stewards by enfeoffing them on estate lands.
However, as Ashikaga Takauji had ousted Emperor Go-Daigo from Kyoto to establish his own bakufu there, the intermingling of residual members of the imperial court, courtiers, daimyo, samurai, and Zen priests resulted in vibrant cultural impulses.
He was talented not only as a samurai but also in various arts like sado and waka, and this helped him to act as a skilled diplomat, dealing with Ashikaga shogunate and deputies of the emperor.
The establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate in Kyoto allowed mutual influence between kuge and samurai on the development of the sport.
The samurai class as a whole however was not ready to give away power, so the alliance between him and the Ashikaga was bound to be only temporary.
Many samurai families belong to this line and had used " Minamoto " clan name in official records, including Ashikaga clan, Hatakeyama clan, Hosokawa clan, Imagawa clan, Mori, Nanbu clan, Nitta clan, Ogasawara clan, Satake clan, Satomi clan, Shiba clan, Takeda clan, Toki clan, etc.
was a samurai general in the service of the Ashikaga Northern Court, during Japan's Nanboku-chō period.
Ashikaga and family
Their innovative reign was soon deposed by the Asukai family, aided by the Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshinori.
The Ashikaga family survived the 16th century, and a branch of it became the daimyo family of the Kitsuregawa domain.
In time, the Ashikaga family had its own succession problems, resulting finally in the Ōnin War ( 1467 – 1477 ), which left Kyoto devastated and effectively ended the national authority of the bakufu.
In 1352, taking advantage of the Kan ' ō Disturbance, a family feud in the Ashikaga clan, the Southern Emperor Emperor Go-Murakami entered Kyoto, capturing it and carrying away Kōmyō along with Emperor Kōgon and Emperor Sukō and the Crown Prince.
* Hatakeyama clan – Offshoot of the Ashikaga clan, and one of the three Kanrei ; a notable family that produced many Kawachi Province shugo.
Deep divisions between members of the Ashikaga family strengthened the opposition.
The shogun Ashikaga Takauji appointed branch family members as shugo lords in the different provinces of western and central Japan.
The latter two families were unrelated to the Ashikaga family.
The shogunal army had two components: the shogunal bodyguard ( shin ' eigun ) consisted of Ashikaga branch family members, shugo relatives and shugo branch family members, other sons and brothers of regime officials, and most importantly, powerful kokujin.
After the Ōnin War, the Ashikaga bakufu completely fell apart ; for all practical purposes, the Hosokawa family was in charge and the Ashikaga shoguns became their puppets.
As the family theater troupe grew in popularity, Zeami had the opportunity to perform in front of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
The Ashikaga family ruled Japan as a feudal military dictatorship called the Ashikaga shogunate ( Jp.
The first family being extinct in 1205, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, son of Ashikaga Yoshizane, was chosen by Hōjō Tokimasa to revive the name of Hatakeyama.
The clan is traditionally reckoned to be started by Ise Shinkurō, who came from a branch of the prestigious Ise clan, a family in the direct employment of the Ashikaga Shoguns.
Both artists came from families of cultural significance ; Kōetsu came from a family of swordsmiths who had served the imperial court and the great warlords, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in addition to the Ashikaga shōguns.
Traditionally Soun held a reputation of a ronin who rose to power almost overnight in Kanto ; however, he belonged to a prestigious family in the direct employment of the Ashikaga shoguns, and enjoyed important family connections.
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