Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358) was the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of Japan, and ended with his death in 1358. He was a male-line descendant of the samurai of the Seiwa Genji line (meaning they were descendants of Emperor Seiwa) who had settled in the …

Shogun (将軍, shōgun, Japanese: [ɕoːɡɯɴ] (); English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ ʌ n / SHOH-gun), officially Sei-i Taishōgun (征夷大将軍, "Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians"), was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto …

足利 義尚（あしかが よしひさ）は、室町時代後期の室町幕府第9代征夷大将軍 （在職：文明5年（1473年）-長享3年 （1489年）。 『尊卑分脈』や『足利家官位記』により、晩年に義煕（あるいは義凞）（よしひろ）と改名したことが確認できるが、一般的には義尚の名で知られる。

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉?, 17 mars 1537-18 septembre 1598) est le deuxième des trois unificateurs du Japon durant la période Sengoku : Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi et Tokugawa Ieyasu.. Daimyō, il vécut durant les périodes Muromachi (室町時代?, 1336-1573) et Azuchi Momoyama (安土桃山時代?, 1573-1600).Le terme Momoyama (la « colline au pêcher …

Minamoto no Yoritomo (源 頼朝, May 9, 1147 – February 9, 1199) was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199. He was the husband of Hōjō Masako who acted as regent after his death.. Yoritomo was the son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo and belonged to Seiwa Genji's prestigious Kawachi Genji family. . After setting …

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: All (post-1868) names need to be written in standard [given name] + [family name] order. ... Ashikaga Yoshihisa, r. 1474–1489; Ashikaga Yoshitane, r. 1490–1493, 1508–1521; Ashikaga Yoshizumi, r. 1494–1508;

Yasuke (弥助 or 弥介) was a man of African origin who served as a retainer and weapon-bearer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga.. In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of the Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.Yasuke was one of the several Africans to have come with the Portuguese to Japan during the Nanban …

Minamoto no Yoshinaka (源 義仲, 1154 – February 21, 1184), Kiso Yoshinaka (木曾 義仲), or Lord Kiso was a general from the late Heian period of Japanese history.A member of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. Yoshinaka was born in Musashi province.His dharma name …

The Muromachi period (室町時代, Muromachi jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Ashikaga era, or the Ashikaga period) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi bakufu or Ashikaga bakufu), which was officially established in 1338 …

Shimazu Yoshihiro (島津 義弘, August 21, 1535 – August 30, 1619) was the second son of Shimazu Takahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa.Traditionally believed to be the 17th head of the Shimazu clan, he was a skilled general during the Sengoku period who greatly contributed to the unification of Kyūshū