Takauji Ashikaga (, Ashikaga Takauji ) (1305 - June 7th 1358) is the first Shogun of the line of the Shoguns Ashikaga. Its reign begins in 1338, beginning the Period Muromachi of the history of the Japan, and finishes with its death in 1358. It belongs to a line of samurais which goes down from the line Seiwa Genji of the clan Minamoto, going down from the emperor Seiwa, which settled in the Ashikaga territory of the Province of Shimotsuke, which nowadays constitutes the Préfecture of Tochigi.

Life

Takauji was a general of the shogunat Kamakura sent to Kyōto in 1333 to subdue the Rébellion Genko which had started in 1331. After having felt an increasing disillusion towards the Shogunat with the wire of time, Takauji joined the emperor banished Go-Daigo and Masashige Kusukoni and takes Kyōto. A little later Yoshisada Nitta attacks Kamakura and destroys finally the shogunat. The Go-Daigo emperor becomes the leading one of Japan de facto, réétablissant the primacy of the imperial court of Kyōto and beginning the restoration Kemmu.

However, little time after, the clans of samurais realizes that the restored imperial court does not restore the social systems and policies of the Period Heian. Feeling their dissatisfaction, Takauji pleads near the emperor so that something is done before the rebellion does not burst, but its warnings will be ignored.

Tokiyuki Hōjō, wire of the Hōjō regent, Takatoki Hōjō, seizes the occasion to start the Rébellion Nakasendai ( Nakasendai No Ran ) to try to réétablir the shogunat with Kamakura in 1335. Takauji crushes the rebellion and takes the control of Kamakura for itself. Taking the cause of the samurais who followed it, it autoproclame '' Seii Taishogun '' and allocates grounds with its samurais without the authorization of the court. Takauji announces its allegiance at the imperial court, but Go-Daigo sends Yoshisada Nitta to claim Kamakura.

Meeting with the Battle of Takenoshita, Takauji demolishes Yoshisada and walk then on Kyoto. It only takes the city to be made eject towards Kyūshū by the combined forces of Yoshisada and Masashige. Takauji is combined with the clans of Kyūshū and walk again on Kyoto. With the battles decisive of Minatogawa, in 1336, Takauji demolishes Yoshisada and kills Masashige, which enables him to take Kyōto for good. It installs on the throne the emperor Kōmyō, which begins the short one and turbulent period of the Courses of North and the South ( Nanboku-chō ) which will last 60 years. It will found the temple Tenryû-ji, with Arashiyama, after the death of the exiled emperor.

The son of Takauji, Yoshiakira Ashikaga succeeds to him as a shogun after his death. Its grandson Yoshimitsu Ashikaga links the courses of North and the South in 1392.

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