Ashikaga shogunate
Medieval Japanese military regime
The Ashikaga shogunate was the military government that ruled Japan from 1336 to 1573, also called the Muromachi shogunate after the Kyoto district where it was headquartered.
The period saw cultural flourishing—Noh theater, tea ceremony, Zen aesthetics—alongside political fragmentation that culminated in a century of civil war.
The Ashikaga shogunate presided over some of Japan's greatest artistic achievements even as its political authority crumbled.
- Muromachi periodAshikaga clan's rule
- shogunJapan's military supreme commander
- Zen BuddhismMeditation-focused Eastern spiritual path
- samuraiFeudal Japanese military caste
- daimyoJapanese feudal landowner
castle · tea ceremony · ink painting · Kyoto · economic instability · regional autonomy · tatami · governance · clan · emperor · civil war · unification · Zen · aristocracy · feudal · warrior · garden design · clan warfare
Ashikaga shogunateTokugawa Ieyasu
Ashikaga shogunateparliamentary democracy
System where elected assembly rules