Collapse of the Ashikaga
Key terms
- Assassination of Ashikaga Yoshinori 1441 by Akamatsu Mitsutuske
- Yamana shugo house
- Hosokawa shugo house
- Ōnin War (1467-1477)
- Warring States era (1467 to 1568 or 1573 or 1590)
Collapse of Ashikaga
- Assassination of Ashikaga Yoshinori 1441 by Akamatsu Mitsutuske
- Akamatsu thinks Yoshinori is going to strip him of lands
- Invites him to banquet and Nō theater performance, then murders him
- Yamana and Hosokoawa attack Akamatsu, force him to commit suicide
- Install Yoshinori's 8 yr old son as shogun -- Yamana and Hosokoawa are key powers
Ōnin War (1467-1477)
- Yoshimasa (8th shogun) has no heir and names his brother Yoshimi as successor 1464
- Yoshimasa (8th shogun) has a son in 1465
- Civil war over succession
- Yamana and Ōuchi vs.
- Hosokawa and Akamatsu
- Large parts of Kyōtō are destroyed
- Hosokawa emerge victorious - remaining Ashikaga shoguns are puppets
Rise of new institutions amidst constant warfare
- Increased powers of the shugo -- Lu, Chapter VI Doc 9 pp. 157-59
- Rise "shugo-daimyō"
- Self-governing villages - sō 惣
- Commoner uprisings -- Lu, Chapter VI Doc 21, 22 pp. 165-66