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Muromachi period室町時代 足利時代alternative words: Muromachijidai, Muromachi jidai, Muromachi era, Ashikaga period, Ashikagajidai, Ashikaga jidai, Ashikaga era, Ashikaga reign keywords: epoch related topics: Muromachi shogunate , Ashikaga Takauji , Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Noh , Onin war related web sites: http://www.ryomonet.co.jp/p-soft/ , http://harachan.net/gon/history/history.html , http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~pip/ututu/ explanation: Period beginning with the nomination of Ashikaga Takauji to "shogun" in 1336 and ended with the suppression of Ashikaga shogunate by Oda Nobunaga in 1573. Contrary to other shogunates, Muromachi's had been always weak and its territorial and political controls scarcely extended beyond the region of Kyoto. The name of Muromachi comes from the district of Kyoto where the office of shogun had been settled. | |