Ashikaga Takauji enters Kyoto and ends the Kenmu Restoration

July 1336

Spurned by Go-Daigo, the powerful warrior reversed sides and marched on the capital with a formidable army of eastern samurai. He installed a rival emperor of the Northern Court and would establish his own shogunate at Muromachi. Go-Daigo fled south to Yoshino, beginning Japan's six-decade Nanboku-cho civil war between two imperial lines.