Muromachi shogunate室町幕府alternative words: Muromachi bakufu, Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga bakufu keywords: office , shogun related topics: Muromachi period , Shogunate , Ashikaga Takauji , Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Oda Nobunaga , Onin war , Shugo related web sites: http://harachan.net/gon/history/his8.html , http://harachan.net/gon/history/his9.html explanation: Shogunate opened by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336. Its political system was similar to Kamakura shogunate but the territorial controls scarcely extended beyond the region of Kyoto: each province had been administered by a powerful local seignior, called "Shugo Daimyo". Kanto region had been administered by Kanto Kanryo and Kyushu region by Kyushu Tandai. After Onin war, the shogunate became a symbolic institution and this pushed Oda Nobunaga to suppress it in 1573. | |