
Episode 429 - The Glorious Fool
History of Japan
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Yoshimas - The Shinto Show Guns
He's best remembered for being a bit on the spineless side and easily pushed around by those in his orbit. The ashkaga show guns controlled far less tenrio personal lands they themselves held and reaped the benefits of, rather than gave up to vassals. By contrast, the ashkaga sho guns directly ruled some land in western honshu and the entirety of shikoku - at that point, the least developed of the japanese islands.
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