Taira no Kiyomori
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Taira no Kiyomori was a Japanese military leader and kugyō of the late Heian period, who was Daijō-daijin and the de facto ruler of Japan from 1167 until his death. He established the first samurai-do
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Taira no Kiyomori in his later years, in book illustration by Kikuchi Yōsai
Taira no Kiyomori's signature (kaō).
While suffering from a fever, Taira no Kiyomori is confronted by a vision of hell and the ghosts of his victims, in an 1883 print by Yoshitoshi.
Ashikaga Takauji
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Ashikaga Takauji also known as Minamoto no Takauji was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. His rule began in 1338, beginning the Muromachi period of
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…administrative government in the history of Japan. He has been dubbed one of "Japan's Three Great Villains" (日本三大梟雄), a nickname he shared with Ashikaga Takauji and Dōkyō, given by Confucian-minded historians due to their lack of loyalty to the throne. Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō in 1118 as the first son of…
Ashikaga Takauji Jōdo ji
Ashikaga Takauji's ō-yoroi (shoulder guards, missing here). Kamakura or Muromachi period, early 14th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wooden statue of Ashikaga Takauji.
Tomb of Ashikaga Takauji at Tōji-in in Kyoto