Ashikaga Takauji

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Portrait of Ashikaga Takauji

Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358)[1] was the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate.[2]

He took power in 1338. This was the beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan, and his reign came to an end with his death in 1358.[3]

He was in the Seiwa Genji family. The family is descended from Emperor Seiwa.

Ashikaga Takauji Media

References

  1. His name had originally been written with the characters 高氏,but he later received from Emperor Go-Daigo the right to use those 尊氏, under which he would become famous. According to Sansom (1977:87), in contemporary chronicles he is rarely called with his name, but referred to as Ō-gosho (大御所, Great shōgun) or Dainagon (Great Councillor).
  2. "Ashikaga Takauji" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 625.
  3. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).

Sources

  • Ackroyd, Joyce I. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702214851ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
  • Matsuo, Kenji. (1997). 中世都市鎌倉をく: 源頼朝から上杉謙信まで (Chūsei toshi Kamakura o aruku: Minamoto no Yoritomo kara Uesugi Kenshin made). Tokyo: Chūkō Shinsho. ISBN 9784121013927ISBN 9784121013927; OCLC 38970710
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069

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