Meitoku - Events of Meitoku Era

Events of Meitoku Era

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu solidified the Bakufu's power by suppressing the power of the Daimyō and the shugo during the Toki Yasuyuki Rebellion, the Meitoku Rebellion and the Ōei Rebellion. In Meitoku 3/Genchū 9 (1392), the Northern Dynasty confiscated the Sacred Treasures which the Southern Court had possessed. With the abdication of Emperor Go-Kameyama, the dynasties, and eras, were consolidated. Hosokawa Yoriyuki, who had reinstated the Bakufu after it lost its standing in the Kōryaku Coup, died in Meiroku 3 (1392) in the Meiroku Rebellion. His younger brother Hosokawa Yoritomo replaced him as the person in control. In Meitoku 4 (1393), Shiba Yoshimasa became the person in control.

• 1390 (Meitoku 1):-- Kusunoki defeated; Yamana Ujikiyo chastises Tokinaga.
• 1391 (Meitoku 2): Yamana Ujikyo attacks Kyoto, an escalation of the Meitoku War (1391-1394) in which Yoshimitsu tried to diminish the power of the Yamana clan which controlled 11 provinces
• 1392 (Meitoku 3), also known as Genchū 9: Northern and Southern courts reconciled under Go-Komatsu.