Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780231130561
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; Biography: general; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; History - General History; History: American; Asia - Japan; Medieval; History / Asia; Asia - General; 1436-1490; Ashikaga, Yoshimasa,; Biography; Japan; Muromachi period, 1336-1573; Shoguns
First sentence: The assassination in 1441 of Ashikaga Yoshinori, the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga line, was carried out with exceptional efficiency and brutality.