- Muromachi period by Jeremiah Perez
In Japanese history, period of military government ( bakufu, or shogunate) from the 14th to the 16th century. The bakufu was established in 1338 by the samurai (warrior) Ashikaga Takauji. Although the bakufu lasted in name until 1573, when the last of the Ashikaga shoguns was deposed, the Ashikaga in fact lost control of Japan during the ...
- II Naosuke by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... minister), Ii headed the bakufu (the military-feudal government of Japan under the shoguns). In 1858 he signed the unequal treaties, the so-called Ansei treaties, with the USA and European countries. Ii sought to strengthen the position of the bakufu amid a crisis of the feudal system and cruelly suppressed the antigovernment movement. He was murdered by ...
- shogun by Ariel Henderson
... 1185 and was known as the Bakufu [literally, army headquarters]. The imperial court at Kyoto continued to exist, but effective power and actual administration were in the hands of the hereditary shoguns. The shogunate was held in turn by the Minamoto family and their successors, with their capital at Kamakura (1192–1333); the Ashikaga, with their capital at ...
- Bakufu by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
the government of three dynasties of military feudal rulers of Japan (the shoguns): Minamoto, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa. The Bakufu lasted from the end of the 12th century until 1867.
- Minamoto Yoritomo by Mitchell May
... of the Kamakura shogunate, or bakufu. A member of the Minamoto warrior clan, Yoritomo was banished in his youth as a consequence of his father's revolt against the reigning Taira family. In exile Yoritomo found support for his cause in Hojo Tokimasa ( see Hojo family), and in 1185 he defeated the Taira. In 1192 the cloistered emperor (see insei) granted him the ...