By: Jeff Wagner and John Lubenow

 First feudal military

government of Japan
 They ruled from 1185-
1333 AD
 Marks the beginning of
medieval Japanese
feudalism
 Government style was
created due to the
violence of the national
civil war
 the Gempei War
 • Minamoto Yoritomo was
the founder of the
Kamakura Shogunate
• Promised regional
security
• Guaranteed land to his
followers
• Showed the importance of
the military side of the
government
• Was given the title of
Shogun in 1192
 The Feudal system is a
system of ruling
 Shoguns controlled the
country through the
nobles (daimyo)
 The Daimyo were
heads of the knights
(Samurai)
 The Peasants farmed
the land for protection
from the samurai
 Golden Age ended with the arrival of the
Mongols
 The Mongols attacked twice
 1274 and 1281
 Defeat of the Mongols was supposedly because
of a divine wind that sank the Mongol fleet
 The wind is called a kamikaze
• Bakufu was a system of rule from 1338-1573 AD
• Tent government
• Second of three feudal military government
• Ashikaga Takauji founded this shogunate
• Ashikaga Shogunate
• Muromachi period
• Muromachi bakufu
• Shogunate depends on Nobles
• Leads to the fall
TWO WAYS ASHIKAGA SHOGUNATE IS REMEMBERED

 Political weakness  Most creative period of

 Daimyo (nobles) formed artistic achievement
alliances  When the Samurai
 Not loyal estate became the real
 Social unrest rulers of the land
 What was the name of the divine wind that
destroyed the Mongol fleet?
-The kamikaze wind
 What is another name for the tent government?

-Bakufu
 What is a synonym for Bakufu?

-Feudalism
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