Ashikaga Yoshihisa
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Ashikaga Yoshihisa was the 9th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa with h
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Ashikaga Yoshihisa kao
Ashikaga Yoshihisa's wooden statue at Tōji-in.
Ōnin War
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The Ōnin War, also known as the Upheaval of Ōnin and Ōnin-Bunmei war, was a civil war that lasted from 1467 to 1477, during the Muromachi period in Japan. Ōnin refers to the Japanese era during which
Ashikaga Yoshihisa
…Ashikaga Yoshimi to succeed him. However, Yoshihisa was born in the next year starting a struggle for succession between brothers that erupted into the Ōnin War starting in 1467, beginning the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In the middle of hostilities, Yoshimasa retired in 1473, relinquishing the position…
Painting depicting a battle during the Ōnin War
Marker at the location of the outbreak of the Ōnin War