Ashikaga Takauji proclaims himself shogun

1337

The Ashikaga warrior took the title of shogun in Kyoto and established his bakufu in the Muromachi district. Two emperors, two courts, two regimes overlapping in the same archipelago - a fractured polity that would take decades to resolve. The Muromachi shogunate would govern Japan, after a fashion, for the next two and a half centuries.