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Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi period)室町幕府

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Ashikaga Takauji drove Emperor Go-Daigo from Kyoto in 1336 and founded a shogunate there, which moved its headquarters to the city's Muromachi district in 1378. The Ōnin War, from 1467, wrecked Kyoto and shogunal authority. Oda Nobunaga banished the last Ashikaga shogun in 1573.

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  1. Ashikaga Takauji drives Emperor Go-Daigo from Kyoto and installs a rival emperor; the two courts fight until 1392

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  2. Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu reunites the Northern and Southern Courts

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  3. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu establishes his Kitayama villa in Kyoto, later the Zen temple Kinkaku-ji with its Golden Pavilion

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  4. – The Ōnin War, rooted in succession disputes in the Ashikaga family, devastates Kyoto and ends the shogunate's national authority

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  5. Portuguese traders reach Tanegashima, the first European contact with Japan

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  6. Oda Nobunaga banishes the last Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiaki

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