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Ashikaga clan
The was a prominent
Japanese
samurai
clan
which established the
Muromachi shogunate
and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573. The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the
Minamoto clan
, deriving originally from the town of
Ashikaga
in
Shimotsuke province
(modern-day
Tochigi prefecture
).
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