The Ashikaga clan (足利氏 Ashikaga-shi) was a prominent Japanese samurai clan which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573.[1]
The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga in Shimotsuke province (modern-day Tochigi prefecture).
For about a century the clan was divided in two rival branches, the Kantō Ashikaga, who ruled from Kamakura, and the Kyōto Ashikaga, rulers of Japan. The rivalry ended with the defeat of the first in 1439. The clan had many notable branch clans, including the Hosokawa, Imagawa, Hatakeyama (after 1205), Kira, Shiba, and Hachisuka clans. After the head family of the Minamoto clan died out during the early Kamakura period, the Ashikaga came to style themselves as the head of the Minamoto, coopting the prestige which came with that name.
Another Ashikaga clan, not related by blood, and derived instead from the Fujiwara clan, also existed.
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Clan Heads [link]
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1. Ashikaga Yoshiyasu[2] |
5. Ashikaga Yoriuji |
Shoguns [link]
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1. Ashikaga Takauji |
9. Ashikaga Yoshihisa[12] |
Notable [link]
- Ashikaga Chachamaru[19]
- Ashikaga Masatomo[20]
- Ashikaga Mitsukane[21]
- Ashikaga Mochiuji[22]
- Ashikaga Motouji[23]
- Ashikaga Satouji
- Ashikaga Shigeuji[24]
- Ashikaga Tadafuyu[25]
- Ashikaga Tadayoshi[26]
- Ashikaga Ujimitsu[27]
- Ashikaga Yoshimi[28]
See also [link]
Notes [link]
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ashikaga" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 53-57 at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiyasu" at p. 57. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikane" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Takauji" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiakira" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimochi" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikazu" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshinori" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikatsu" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimasa" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihisa" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshitane" at p. 57. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshizumi" at p. 57. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiharu" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiteru" at p. 57. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihide" at p. 56. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Chachamaru" at p. 54. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Masatomo" at p. 54. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mitsukane" at p. 54. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mochiuji" at p. 54. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Motouji" at p. 54. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Shigeuji" at pp. 54-55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadafuyu" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadayoshi" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Ujimitsu" at p. 55. at Google Books
- ^ Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimi" at p. 56. at Google Books
References [link]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
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Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara)
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 Fujiwara branch. The clan was a powerful force in the Kantō region during the Heian period (794-1185). It bore no direct relation to the samurai Ashikaga clan which ruled Japan under the Ashikaga shogunate from 1333 to 1587 and which was descended from the Minamoto clan.
History
The clan was based in the city of Ashikaga, in Shimotsuke province, over which Fujiwara no Hidesato was Imperial Governor (kami). Ashikaga no Nariyuki was the first to take the Ashikaga name, after the city.
In 1161, the position of jitō (manor lord) of Ashikaga city in Shimotsuke province came to be disputed between the Koyama clan, descendants of Fujiwara no Hidesato, and Utsunomiya Ietsuna, a member of the Shiroi Utsunomiya clan, also descended from the Fujiwara, whose son Toshitsuna controlled several thousand hectares of land in that area. The dispute eventually ended in Hidesato's descendants being granted the post of shugo (shogunal governor) in the northern Kantō. The area soon came to be in dispute once again, between the Minamoto-descended Ashikaga clan (who took their name from the same city) and the Nitta clan, but this dispute ended when both clans, along with the Utsunomiya, joined Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Genpei War (1180-1185) against the Taira clan.
