Siege of Makishima
Oda Nobunaga expels Ashikaga Yoshiaki after the fall of Makishima Castle
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Makishima falls, and the shōgun submits
Ashikaga Yoshiaki repudiated an earlier reconciliation and again raised forces against Oda Nobunaga in 1573, at Makishima Castle near Uji, south of Kyoto. Nobunaga crossed the Uji River, assaulted the fortified position, and forced his submission.
On the traditional Japanese date — Genki 4, seventh month, twentieth day, converted to 27 August in the proleptic Gregorian calendar — Yoshiaki was sent to Wakae Castle in Kawachi Province, where Miyoshi Yoshitsugu received him.
What the last shōgun kept
Yoshiaki was not executed. He furnished his son as a hostage as security for the settlement and, after the expulsion, retained both his shogunal title and his court rank.
Nobunaga issued no decree formally dissolving the shogunate. What ended was the Kyoto-based Muromachi shogunate as an effective government.
An ending described rather than declared
Nobunaga became the dominant military power in the capital region, while Yoshiaki continued his opposition from exile.
The 1573 'end' of the shogunate is a conventional description of political collapse, not a same-day legal abolition — and it did not end warfare across Japan. The New Cambridge History of Japan describes 1573 as a turning point followed by an intensification, a zenith, of Sengoku fighting.
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Traditional date. This date is the conventional one, not one fixed by a contemporary record.
What the sources leave uncertain
- The underlying Japanese date is Genki 4, seventh month, twentieth day. The University of Tokyo conversion table maps the same month's twenty-eighth day to 4 September Gregorian, supporting 27 August for the twentieth day.
- Dates such as 15 or 25 August in secondary accounts often refer instead to the assault or surrender on the eighteenth day and/or use Julian rather than proleptic Gregorian conversion.
- The shogunate's 'end' in 1573 is a conventional description of its effective political collapse, not a same-day legal abolition.