The ashikaga (muromachi) shogunate vs. the minamoto (kamakura) shogunate essay sample
Introduction The theme of this paper is medieval Japan, straddling the three and a half centuries between the concluding decades of the twelfth century when the Kamakura bakufu was established and the mid-sixteenth century during which civil wars fumed following the effectual failure of the Muromachi bakafu. The Muromachi shogunate was the weakest of the →