Tag: Yoshimasa

Rebuilding Kyoto

March 6, 2023 justin-david-hebert Season 9, Sengoku Jidai Comments Off on Rebuilding Kyoto
Season 9, Episode 1: Rebuilding Kyoto
A painting of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa, artist unknown. Yoshihisa would lead a short but active life as Shogun, but died at the age of 25 in 1489. Source: Public Domain
Yamashiro Province (shown in red) is home to Kyoto and experienced a series of peasant uprisings after the Onin War. Source: Ash_Crow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A drawing of Hatakeyama Yoshinari, the elder cousin of Hatakeyama Masanaga who sustained a long-term conflict over leadership of the Hatakeyama Clan as well as the rightful inheritor of the office of Kanrei. Source: Musuketeer.3, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The crest (mon) of the Rokkaku Clan, who rebelled against the Shogunate and then waged a long-term guerilla war against the Hokoshu. Source: Public Domain
Omi Province (shown in red) was the Rokkaku Clan’s home province and it was here that Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa died encamped against them. Source: Ash_Crow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Rising Tide

December 19, 2022 justin-david-hebert Early Muromachi, Season 8 Comments Off on The Rising Tide

After Yoshimitsu, the Ashikaga Shoguns would all try their hand at keeping the powerful shugo-daimyo clans in line. Ashikaga Yoshinori went to extreme lengths to dominate them, but paid the ultimate price.