Events+and+Leaders+of+Feudal+Japan

·  The Kamakura shogunate era lasted from the inception of the position in 1192 until 1338  ·  1192 – 1199: **Minamoto Yoritomo**
 * Events and Leaders **

·  1199: After Yoritomo’s death, quarrels for supremacy start between the bakufu of Kamakura and the Imperial court in Kyoto  ·  1201 – 1203: **Minamoto Yoriie** ·  1203 – 1219: **Minamoto Sanetomo** ·  1221: The quarrels for supremacy between the shoguns and the Imperial court reach an end in the Jokyu War when the imperial army is defeated in Kyoto, and the Hojo Regents in Kamakura achieve complete control over Japan  ·  The Hojo Regents were defeated by the I mperial court, but almost immediately the Ashikaga Shoguns seized power under Ashikaga Takauji who appointed himself shogun and held the stronger north of Japan. The imperial court was reunited in 1392, and the following Muromachi Period was dominated by the Ashikaga shogunate  ·  1338 – 1358: **Ashikaga Takauji**  ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1358 – 1367: **Ashikaga Yoshiakira** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1367 – 1395: **Ashikaga Yoshimitsu** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1395 – 1423: **Ashikaga Yoshimochi** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1423 – 1425: **Ashikaga Yoshikazu** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1428 – 1441: **Ashikaga Yoshinori** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1441 – 1443: **Ashikaga Yoshikatsu** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1449 – 1474: **Ashikaga Yoshimasa** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1474 – 1489: **Ashikaga Yoshihisa** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1490 – 1493: **Ashikaga Yoshitane** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1493 – 1508: **Ashikaga Yoshizumi** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1508 – 1521: **Ashikaga Yoshitane** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1521 – 1545: **Ashikaga Yoshiharu** ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1543 – 1550: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Portuguese arrive in Japan, possibly the first Europeans to do so, and within seven years they establish a trading base at Nagasaki <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1545 – 1565: **AshikagaYoshiteru** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1568: **Ashikaga Yoshihide** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1568 – 1573: **Ashikaga Yoshiaki** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ·  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1573: The Ashikaga shogunate is ended when Yoshiaki is driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oba Nobunaga <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Return to Research Page

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