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30-498: Oshi Castle was completed by Narita Akiyasu around 1479. The Narita family ruled over the area of Gyōda as retainers to the Odawara Hōjō clan . The castle made use of marshes and swamplands in its surroundings and was considered impregnable. In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched his senior retainer Ishida Mitsunari with an army of 23,000 troops to seize the castle. In the Siege of Oshi ,

60-577: A credible threat to military rule. The failure of the Kenmu Restoration had rendered the court weak and subservient, a situation that Ashikaga Takauji reinforced by establishing his court within close proximity to the Emperor in Kyoto. The authority of the local daimyō greatly expanded from that of Kamakura times. In addition to military and policing responsibilities, the shogunate-appointed shugo now absorbed

90-634: A disciple of Sen no Rikyū , was under the patronage of the Odawara lords. Following their fall, he was brutally executed on orders by Toyotomi Hideyoshi . The clan ruled Sayama Domain in Kawachi Province through the Edo period . The heads of the Late Hōjō clan were as follows: Hyouge Mono (へうげもの Hepburn: Hyōge Mono, lit. "Jocular Fellow") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Yamada. It

120-572: Is traditionally reckoned to be started by Ise Shinkurō , who came from a branch of the prestigious Ise clan, descendants of Taira no Toshitsugu, a family in the direct service of the Ashikaga shoguns , as close advisors and Shugo (Governor) of Yamashiro Province (Ise Sadamichi since 1493). During the Imagawa clan succession crisis in 1476, Shinkurō whose sister was married to Imagawa Yoshitada , Shugo (Governor) of Suruga Province , became associated with

150-832: The daimyō lords of the samurai class. The Ashikaga shogunate began the Nanboku-chō period between the Pro-Ashikaga Northern Court in Kyoto and the Pro-Go-Daigo Southern Court in Yoshino until the South conceded to the North in 1392. The Ashikaga shogunate collapsed upon outbreak of the Ōnin War in 1467, entering a state of constant civil war known as the Sengoku period , and

180-765: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi in the Boshin War . Following the Meiji Restoration, the final daimyō of Oshi Domain, Matsudaira Tadanori, married a daughter of Prince Fushimi Kuniie and was ennobled with the title of viscount ( shishaku ) in the kazoku peerage. As with most domains in the han system , Oshi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka , based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. Late H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D clan The Later Hōjō clan ( Japanese : 後北条氏 , Hepburn : Go-Hōjō-shi )

210-671: The Genpei War was fought between the Taira and Minamoto clans, which had a longstanding violent rivalry for influence over the Emperor of Japan and his Imperial Court . The Genpei War ended with victory for the Minamoto under Minamoto no Yoritomo , establishing the Kamakura shogunate after being pronounced Shōgun and beginning the Kamakura period . The Hōjō clan rose to power and governed Japan from

240-552: The Imagawa clan . At the death of Yoshitada in battle, Shinkurō went down to Suruga Province to support his nephew Imagawa Ujichika . Through this relationship Shinkurō quickly established a base of power in Kantō. His son wanted his lineage to have a more illustrious name, and chose Hōjō , after the line of hereditary regents of the Kamakura shogunate , to which his wife also belonged. So he became Hōjō Ujitsuna , and his father, Ise Shinkurō,

270-573: The Kenmu Restoration . The Kamakura shogunate ordered Ashikaga Takauji to squash the uprising, but for reasons that are unclear, Takauji turned against Kamakura and fought on behalf of the Imperial court, successfully overthrowing the shogunate. It is possibly because Takauji was the unofficial leader of the powerless Minamoto clan while the Hōjō clan were from the Taira clan the Minamoto had previously defeated. Japan

300-476: The Korean Peninsula and with imperial China. Bloody succession crises amongst the warrior families led to a decline in the authority of the bakufu until it almost vanished by 1441 at the death of Ashikaga Yoshinori . The lack of government control was especially acute when the daimyō feuded among themselves in the pursuit of power during the Ōnin War (1467–1477), until it erupted into open warfare in

330-505: The feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573. The Ashikaga shogunate was established when Ashikaga Takauji was appointed Shōgun after overthrowing the Kenmu Restoration shortly after it had overthrown the Kamakura shogunate in support of Emperor Go-Daigo . The Ashikaga clan governed Japan from the Imperial capital of Heian-kyō ( Kyoto ) as de facto military dictators along with

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360-576: The Kitsuregawa domain. The shogunal residence, also known as the "Flower Palace", was in Kyoto on the block now bounded by Karasuma Street (to the east), Imadegawa Street (to the south), Muromachi Street (to the west, giving the name), and Kamidachiuri Street (to the north). The location is commemorated by a stone marker at the southwest corner, and the Kanbai-kan ( 寒梅館 , Winter Plum Hall) of Dōshisha University contains relics and excavations of

390-501: The Rance Series, Sengoku Rance . The Hojo clan's logo/symbol was the inspiration for the Legend of Zelda series' Triforce logo. This Japanese clan article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ashikaga shogunate The Ashikaga shogunate ( 足利幕府 , Ashikaga bakufu ) , also known as the Muromachi shogunate ( 室町幕府 , Muromachi bakufu ) , was

420-509: The Southern Court gave up during the reign of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1392. The Ashikaga shogunate was the weakest of the three Japanese military governments. Unlike its predecessor, the Kamakura shogunate , or its successor, the Tokugawa shogunate , when Ashikaga Takauji established his government he had little personal territory with which to support his rule. The Ashikaga shogunate

450-531: The battle-damaged castle and surrounding castle town until 1592. He was replaced by Matsudaira Tadayoshi of the Tōjō-branch of the Matsudaira clan until 1600. However, following the Battle of Sekigahara , Matsudaira Tadayoshi was promoted to Kiyosu Domain (620,000 koku ) and Oshi Domain reverted to tenryō status. The domain was revived in 1633 for the rōjū Matsudaira Nobutsuna , infamous for his role in

480-435: The castle’s 619 samurai and 2000 local conscripts held off numerous attacks, and the castle surrendered only after word that their overlords had been defeated at the Siege of Odawara . Afterwards, the area came under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu , who assigned his 4th son, Matsudaira Tadayoshi to a 100,000 koku domain. However, as Tadayasu was only 11 years old, the domain was managed by Matsudaira Ietada , who repaired

510-531: The city of Kamakura , while the Emperor and his Imperial Court remained in the official capital city of Heian-kyō as largely symbolic figures. The Hōjō monopoly of power, as well as the lack of a reward of lands after the defeat of the Mongol invasions , led to simmering resentment among Hōjō vassals . In 1333, the Emperor Go-Daigo ordered local governing vassals to oppose Hōjō rule, in favor of Imperial rule in

540-461: The judicial, economic, and taxation powers of the local Imperial governors, while the government holdings in each province were rapidly absorbed into the personal holdings of the daimyō or their vassals. The loss of both political clout and an economic base deprived the Imperial court of much of its power, which were then assumed by the Ashikaga shōgun . This situation reached its peak under the rule of

570-399: The late Muromachi period, also known as the Sengoku period . When the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru was assassinated in 1565, an ambitious daimyō , Oda Nobunaga , seized the opportunity and installed Yoshiteru's brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th Ashikaga shōgun and Nobunaga's puppet . However Yoshiaki was not entirely subservient to Nobunaga: he continued to strike bargains amongst

600-510: The monasteries to gain favor, and mediated between powerful clans such as the Otomo and Mori . The Ashikaga shogunate was finally destroyed in 1573 when Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto. Initially, Yoshiaki fled to Shikoku . Afterwards, he sought and received protection from the Mōri clan in western Japan. The Ashikaga family survived the 16th century, and a branch of it became the daimyō family of

630-631: The subject of how to govern the country. That dispute led Takauji to cause Prince Yutahito, the second son of Emperor Go-Fushimi , to be installed as Emperor Kōmyō while Go-Daigō fled Kyoto. Japan was subsequently divided between two Imperial courts: the Northern Court located in Kyoto, in favor of Kōmyō under Ashikaga influence; and the Southern Court located in Yoshino , in favor of Go-Daigō. The Northern and Southern courts engaged in an ideological struggle for power that continued for 56 years, until

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660-521: The suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion . He moved on to Kawagoe Domain in 1638 and was replaced for the next nine generations by the Abe clan . Abe Tadaaki was a close confidant of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu and served as wakadoshiyori and rōjū . His on Masayoshi served as Osaka jōdai and Kyoto Shoshidai , as did many of the succeeding generations at Oshi Domain. In 1823, Abe Masanori

690-454: The third shōgun , Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. After Yoshimitsu however, the structural weakness of the Ashikaga shogunate was exposed by numerous succession troubles and early deaths. This became dramatically more acute after the Ōnin War , after which the shogunate itself became reduced to little more than a local political force in Kyoto. The Ashikaga shogunate's foreign relations policy choices were played out in evolving contacts with Joseon on

720-630: Was adapted into an anime series in 2011, and includes a fictional depiction of the Hōjō. The Hōjō are a playable faction in the video game Total War: Shogun 2 . The later Hōjō clan of the Sengoku jidai from the manga and anime of Inuyasha , and the second movie Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass . The Hojo/Houjou Clan is a house/clan in AliceSoft ' s 7th Game in

750-469: Was finally dissolved when Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki was overthrown by Oda Nobunaga in 1573. The Ashikaga shogunate's alternative name Muromachi and the Muromachi period are derived from the Muromachi district of Kyoto, where the third Shōgun , Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , established his residence nicknamed the "Flower Palace" ( 花の御所 , Hana no Gosho ) on Muromachi Street in 1379. From 1180 to 1185,

780-560: Was one of the most powerful samurai families in Japan in the Sengoku period and held domains primarily in the Kantō region . Their last name was simply Hōjō ( 北条 ) , but were called "Later Hōjō" to differentiate between the earlier Hōjō clan who had the same name and mon , even though it was not their official family name. The history of the family is written in the Hōjō Godaiki . The clan

810-569: Was posthumously renamed Hōjō Sōun . The Late Hōjō, sometimes known as the Odawara Hōjō after their home castle of Odawara in Sagami Province , were not related to the earlier Hōjō clan. Their power rivaled that of the Tokugawa clan , but eventually Toyotomi Hideyoshi eradicated the power of the Hōjō clan in the siege of Odawara (1590) , banishing Hōjō Ujinao and his wife Toku Hime (a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu ) to Mount Kōya , where Ujinao died in 1591. The tea master Yamanoue Sōji ,

840-511: Was returned to Imperial civilian rule , but Emperor Go-Daigo's policies were unpopular and failed to satisfy those who had fought for him. In 1336, Takauji established his own military government in Kyoto, effectively overthrowing the Kenmu Restoration and appointing himself as the new Shōgun . After Ashikaga Takauji established himself as the Shōgun , a dispute arose with Emperor Go-Daigo on

870-458: Was thus heavily reliant on the prestige and personal authority of its shōgun . The centralized master-vassal system used in the Kamakura system was replaced with the highly de-centralized daimyōs (local lord) system, and because of the lack of direct territories, the military power of the shōgun depended heavily on the loyalty of the daimyō . On the other hand, the Imperial court was no longer

900-601: Was transferred to Shirakawa Domain , and Oshi was given to Matsudaira Tadataka of the Okudaira branch of the Matsudaira clan, formerly from Kuwana Domain . The Matsudaira continued to rule Oshi until the Meiji Restoration . Despite their fudai status, Matsudaira Tadakuni united the domain in favor of the Meiji government after shōgun Tokugawa Keiki abandoned his forces (including Tadakuni's son, Masudaira Tadazane)] following

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