JAPN 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ashikaga Shogunate, Emperor Go-Daigo, Minamoto No Yoritomo
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Japn 2150 - lecture 11 - samurai culture in the ashikaga period. H j masako and her father"s family run the politics. The h j family use marriage politics like the fujiwara. H j became powerless in the late 1200s due to . Two attempted invasions by the mongols (1274 and 1281) Japan was not completely isolated, but it was trying to keep the mongols away from japan. 30,000 mongol troops landed in hakata bay. Mongols returned to korean peninsula during the night. Why the japanese had difficulty fighting against the mongols: mongols" arrows had a greater range and accuracy, hand grenades and mass fighting, samurai: individual fighting with a ritualistic opening (giving one"s name and asking enemy"s name) The kamakura bakufu ordered local lords to build defensive walls and dig trenches at hakata temples and shrines to pray for mongol"s surrender. 140,000 mongol troops with 4,400 ships came to hakata.
