VARIOUS TERMS FOR JAPAN’S MIDDLE PERIOD Chūsei / Middle / sometimes called Medieval 1180s-1603 Kamakura Muromachi (governing shōgunate is (governing Ashikaga shōgunate is in Kyoto in Kamakura) Muromachi district) 1180s-1333 1336-1573 Hostilities lead to collapse of imperial control in Heian Yoshino Sengoku Azuchi with new military govt in Kamakura: Momo- 1156 Hōgen wars Nanboku chō “Warring States” yama 1159 Heiji Wars 1568/ “North-South 1573 Buddhist Reformers (sects): Imperial - Hōnen (Pure Land) Courts” Shinran (True Pure Land) 1603/ Eisai (Rinzai Zen) 1615 Dōgen (Sōtō Zen) 1336-1392 1467-1568 Nichiren (Nichiren) NORTHERN EASTERNRegional warlords competing for power 1333 collapse of Kamakura military govt Begins in earnest after Onin Disturbance of 1467, very late 1300s into first half of 1400s flourishing after construction of Silver Pavilion in 1482, Kitayama bunka fading shortly after Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa's “Northern Hills Culture” death in 1490 centers around patronage of the arts by HILLS HILLSHigashiyama bunka Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu “Eastern Hills Culture” 1358-1409, in office 1368-94 centers around patronage of the arts by but particularly from the establishment of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa Kinkakuji in 1397 until the death of 1435-90, in office 1449-73 Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1441 1336 split into Ashikaga and In power: Oda Nobunaga, imperial govts then Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then Tokugawa Ieyasu The north (Kyoto) branch of the imperial line supported by Ashikaga family The Momoyama period is calculated vs. from the arrival of Nobunaga to the capital (Kyoto) the south (Yoshino) branch or when he overpowers the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki supported by Emperor Go-Daigo until the beginning of the Edo government or the death of Ieyasu South line loses and is named after the castles Nobunaga and Hideyoshi built ⓒ John R. Wallace 2011 1392 reunification of split imperial lines.