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Muromachi Period (756 words) |
 | Ashikaga Motouji, the Kanto Kanrei, dies and is succeded by Ashikaga Ujimitsu. |
| Oûchi Yoshihiro is defeated at Saki by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. |
| Ashikaga Shogun, Yoshinori, is assassinated by Akamatsu Mitsusuke. |
| Ashikaga shogunate - The Encyclopedia (575 words) |
| For reasons that are unclear, possibly because Ashikaga was the de facto leader of the powerless Minamoto clan, while the HÅjÅ clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated, Ashikaga turned against the Kamakura bakufu, and fought on behalf of the Imperial court. |
| When the last effective Ashikaga shogun Yoshiteru was assassinated in 1565, an ambitious daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, seized the opportunity and installed Yoshiteru's brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shogun. |
| The Ashikaga family survived the 16th century, and a branch of it became the daimyo family of the Kitsuregawa domain. |
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