Ashikaga

The Ashikaga shogunate was a military government based in Kyoto. Ashikaga Takauji helped overthrow the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, then turned against Emperor Go-Daigo and seized Kyoto in 1336.

Takauji became shogun in 1338. The third shogun, Yoshimitsu, built his residence, the Flower Palace, in Kyoto's Muromachi district in 1379; the rival Northern and Southern courts were united in 1392. The Ōnin War began in 1467; in 1573 Oda Nobunaga expelled the last Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiaki, from Kyoto.