The Ashikaga clan (Japanese: 足利氏, Hepburn: Ashikaga-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan and dynasty which established the Ashikaga shogunate and ruled Japan...

overthrown the Kamakura shogunate in support of Emperor Go-Daigo. The Ashikaga clan governed Japan from the Imperial capital of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) as de...

Kawachi Genji. It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan. Ashikaga Kuniuji, grandson of Ashikaga Yoshiuji, established himself in the 13th...

through the Ashikaga clan. It produced many prominent officials in the Ashikaga shogunate's administration. In the Edo period, the clan was one of the...

Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358) also known as Minamoto no Takauji was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate...

Yoshiteru was killed by the Miyoshi clan, he returned to secular life and took the name "Yoshiaki". At the time, the Ashikaga shogunate had been severely weakened;...

descendants of the Ashikaga clan, who were in turn descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan. The first family...

Ashikaga clan through the Shiba clan (Seiwa Genji) of the Minamoto clan. Ashikaga Ieuji (13th century), son of Ashikaga Yasuuji, was the first to adopt...

established the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates following the Heian era. The Minamoto was one of the four great clans that dominated Japanese politics...

Fujiwara-descent Ashikaga clan. Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara) (足利氏) – descended from Fujiwara Hokke; no direct relation to the Genji-descent Ashikaga clan. Ashina clan (蘆名氏)...

Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利 義詮, July 4, 1330 – December 28, 1367) was the second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the...

Ashikaga Yoshitane (足利 義稙, September 9, 1466 – May 23, 1523), also known as Ashikaga Yoshiki (足利 義材), was the 10th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who...

head of the clan. At the end of the Kamakura shogunate, they became distant from the shogunate and showed a favorable attitude to Ashikaga Takauji. In...

Ashikaga (足利) may refer to: Ashikaga clan (足利氏 Ashikaga-shi), a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Minamoto clan; and that formed the basis of the...

Hōjō rule eventually culminated in the overthrow of the clan and the establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate. The Hōjō are alleged to have been an offshoot...

Mogami clan (最上氏) were Japanese daimyōs, and were a branch of the Ashikaga family. In the Sengoku period, they were the Sengoku daimyōs who ruled Dewa...

Muromachi era (室町時代, Muromachi jidai), also known as the Ashikaga period or Ashikaga era (足利時代, Ashikaga jidai), is a division of Japanese history running from...

Ashikaga Yoshizumi (足利 義澄, January 15, 1481 – September 6, 1511) was the 11th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the...

Ashikaga Yoshimasa (足利 義政, January 20, 1436 – January 27, 1490) was the eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the...

The Ashikaga clan (足利氏, -shi) was a branch family of the Japanese Fujiwara clan of court nobles, more specifically Fujiwara no Hidesato of the Northern...

Akechi Mitsuhide then served the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ashikaga Yoshiaki. After introducing Ashikaga Yoshiaki to Oda Nobunaga, Mitsuhide became...

Nagamasa, the Asano are direct descendants of the Hatakeyama clan and the Ashikaga clan. Asano Nagamasa (浅野長政, 1546–1611) - brother-in-law of Toyotomi...

Ashikaga Yoshinori (足利 義教, July 12, 1394 – July 12, 1441) was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi...

Ashikaga shogunate lost its sovereignty, Ujinohime was vital to the administration of the Kantō region, she worked together with the Later Hōjō clan and...

Kozan Egen (古山慧源). The Ashikaga were a samurai family from Kamakura having blood ties with the Seiwa Genji, Minamoto no Yoritomo's clan. Unlike his brother...

elder brother of Minamoto no Yoshiyasu, the common ancestor of the Ashikaga clan. Yoshishige was a landowner in the Nitta District of Kōzuke Province...

shogun in the Ashikaga shogunate, and the equivalent of Shikken (執権) in the Kamakura shogunate. This made the shogun a puppet of the Hosokawa clan, which served...

The Kira clan(吉良氏 - kira-shi) was a Japanese clan, descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880), and was a cadet branch of the Ashikaga family from the Minamoto...

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Shiba clan (斯波氏, Shiba-shi) was a Japanese clan. The Shiba clan descend from the Ashikaga Yasuuji and the Seiwa-Genji. Shiba Ieuji was the son of Shiba...