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26th day of the 7th month, Bunmei 18 (August 25, 1486)
Bunmei 18 (1486): the assassination of Ōta Dōkan, builder of Edo Castle, who was murdered by his lord Uesugi Sadamasa. The untimely death of this renowned general, accomplished in both arms and letters, threw the political situation of the Kantō into turmoil and became a remote cause of the rise of the Later Hōjō clan and the opening of the Kantō Sengoku period.
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July 12, 1441 (Kakitsu 1, 6th month, 24th day)
In the 6th month of Kakitsu 1 (1441), Akamatsu Mitsusuke, daimyo of Harima, Bizen, and Mimasaka provinces, assassinated Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori by inviting him to his residence—a political coup. It arose from backlash against Yoshinori's reign of terror, which was called "Terror of All Men." Mitsusuke was defeated by the shogunate army shortly after, and both the power of the daimyo and the authority of the shogun were greatly shaken.
1333–1336 CE (Genkō 3 – Kenmu 3)
Emperor Go-Daigo's brief imperial restoration (1333–1336) following the fall of the Kamakura shogunate. The conflict between loyalists like Kusunoki Masashige and Ashikaga Takauji's revolt led to the Nanbokuchō split and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate.