Ashikaga Takauji - Timeline of Shogunate

Timeline of Shogunate

Significant events which shaped the period during which Takauji was shogun are:

• 1338 — Takauji appointed shogun.
• 1349 — Go-Murakami flees to A'no; Ashikaga Tadayoshi and Kō no Moronao quarrel; Ashikaga Motouji, son of Takauji, appointed Kamakura Kanrei
• 1350 — Tadayoshi, excluded from administration, turns priest; Tadayoshi's adopted son, Ashikaga Tadafuyu is wrongly repudiated as a rebel.
• 1351–1358 — Struggle for Kyoto.
• 1351 — Tadayoshi joins Southern Court, southern army takes Kyoto; truce, Takauji returns to Kyoto; Tadayoshi and Takauji reconciled; Kō no Moronao and Kō no Moroyasu are exiled.
• 1352 — Tadayoshi dies, Southern army recaptures Kyoto; Nitta Yoshimune captures Kamakura; Ashikaga forces recapture Kamakura and Kyoto; Tadafuyu joins Southern Court; Yamana Tokiuji joins Tadafuyu.
• 1353 — Kyoto retaken by Southern forces under Yamana Tokiuji; retaken by Ashikaga forces.
• 1354 — Takauji flees with Go-Kōgon; Kitabatake Chikafusa dies.
• 1355 — Kyoto taken by Southern army; Kyoto retaken by Ashikaga forces.
• 1358 — Takauji dies.

Takauji's son Ashikaga Yoshiakira succeeded him as shogun after his death. His grandson Ashikaga Yoshimitsu united the Northern and Southern courts in 1392.