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Muromachi (Ashikaga) rule and feudal fragmentation in Japan (1336–1573)

Muromachi (Ashikaga) rule and feudal fragmentation in Japan (1336–1573)

  1. Kemmu Restoration begins imperial rule

    Labels: Emperor Go-Daigo, Ky to

  2. Ashikaga Takauji breaks with Go-Daigo

    Labels: Ashikaga Takauji, Northern and

  3. Ashikaga shogunate founded under Takauji

    Labels: Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji

  5. Northern and Southern Courts reunified

    Labels: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Northern Court

  6. Kinkaku-ji constructed as Yoshimitsu’s villa

    Labels: Kinkaku-ji, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

  7. Ming grants Yoshimitsu title “King of Japan”

    Labels: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ming China

  9. Yamashiro ikki forms provincial self-government

    Labels: Yamashiro ikki, Yamashiro Province

  10. Kaga Rebellion empowers Ikkō-ikki in province

    Labels: Kaga Rebellion, Ikk -ikki

  11. Meiō coup deposes Ashikaga Yoshitane

    Labels: Hosokawa Masamoto, Ashikaga Yoshitane

  12. Ningbo incident disrupts Ming–Japan tally trade

    Labels: Ningbo incident, uchi clan

  13. Portuguese firearms introduced at Tanegashima

    Labels: Tanegashima, Portuguese traders

  14. Battle of Okehazama elevates Oda Nobunaga

    Labels: Battle of, Oda Nobunaga

  15. Oda Nobunaga installs Ashikaga Yoshiaki as shogun

    Labels: Oda Nobunaga, Ashikaga Yoshiaki

  16. Yoshiaki expelled from Kyōto; shogunate collapses

    Labels: Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Oda Nobunaga