Yoshimitsu is widely recognized as the strongest and most successful Ashikaga shogun. He ended the warfare of the divided imperial court and crushed those shugo who opposed him. He reopened diplomatic ...

For imperial loyalists of the late Edo Period, the experiences of Emperor Go-Daigo from five centuries past were an ...

If true, this would make the objects the first physical evidence for the pagoda, which is said to have been constructed by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408). Excavated bronze pieces that ...

The temple is the headquarters of the Shokokuji school of the Rinzai sect of Buddhism, which was founded by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408), the third shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate.

The “land of the gods” had been violated. Foreigners strode the sacred soil. The shogun in Edo (present-day Tokyo) was helpless. Ten years had passed since American “Black Ships” steamed ...