Alternate Titles: Ashikaga bakufu, Ashikaga shogunate, Muromachi bakufu
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The Muromachi (or Ashikaga) period (1338–1573)
establishment by Ashikaga Takauji
warrior and statesman who founded the Ashikaga shogunate (hereditary military dictatorship) that dominated Japan from 1338 to 1573.
. Later Kamakura shoguns lost real power to the Hōjō family while remaining rulers in name. Ashikaga Takauji received the title of shogun in 1338 and established the Ashikaga shogunate, but his successors enjoyed even less control over Japan than had the Kamakura shoguns, and the country gradually fell into...
After the collapse of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, Ashikaga Takauji established a second line of shogunal succession that ruled much of Japan from 1338 until 1573. The Ashikaga shogunate’s capital was the imperial city of Kyōto. But the increasingly independent shugo, virtual warlords, who by the 16th century were known as daimyo, eventually undermined the power of the Ashikaga...
impact on Japanese visual arts
...at imperial restoration in Kyōto, astutely surveyed circumstances and, during the years 1333 to 1336, transformed his role from that of insurrection queller to usurper of shogunal power. The Muromachi period (1338–1573) takes its name from a district in Kyōto where the new shogunal line of the Ashikaga family established its residence. With Takauji’s ascendancy a split...