List of shoguns explained

This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators,^[1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.

Asuka / Heian periods (709–1184)

See main article: Asuka period and Heian period. Note: there are different shogun titles. For example, Kose no Maro had the title of . Ki no Kosami had the title of ^[2] in 789 which is less important than Sei-i Taishōgun. Ōtomo no Otomaro was the first person who was granted the title of . Sakanoue no Tamuramaro was the second, and Minamoto no Yoritomo was third person who had the title of Sei-i Taishōgun.

	Portrait	Name	Shogun from	Shogun until
1		Kose no Maro	709
2		Tajihi no Agatamori	720	721
3		Ōtomo no Yakamochi	784	785
4		Ki no Kosami	788	789
5		Ōtomo no Otomaro	793	794
6		Sakanoue no Tamuramaro	797	808
7		Funya no Watamaro	811	816
8		Fujiwara no Tadabumi	940
9		Minamoto no Yoshinaka	1184

Kamakura shogunate (1192–1333)

See main article: Kamakura shogunate.

	Portrait	Name	Shogun from	Shogun until
1		Minamoto no Yoritomo	1192	1199
2		Minamoto no Yoriie	1202	1203
3		Minamoto no Sanetomo	1203	1219
4		Kujō Yoritsune	1226	1244
5		Kujō Yoritsugu	1244	1252
6		Prince Munetaka	1252	1266
7		Prince Koreyasu	1266	1289
8		Prince Hisaaki	1289	1308
9		Prince Morikuni	1308	1333

Timeline

Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336)

See main article: Kenmu Restoration.

	Portrait	Name	Shogun from	Shogun until
1		Prince Moriyoshi	1333
2		Prince Narinaga	1335	1336

Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1573)

See main article: Ashikaga shogunate.

	Portrait	Name	Shogun from	Shogun until
1		Ashikaga Takauji	1338	1358
2		Ashikaga Yoshiakira	1359	1367
3		Ashikaga Yoshimitsu	1369	de jure 1395
				de facto 1408
4		Ashikaga Yoshimochi	1395	de jure 1423
				de facto 1428
5		Ashikaga Yoshikazu	1423	1425
6		Ashikaga Yoshinori	1429	1441
7		Ashikaga Yoshikatsu	1442	1443
8		Ashikaga Yoshimasa	1449	de jure 1474
				de facto 1490
9		Ashikaga Yoshihisa	1474	1489
10		Ashikaga Yoshitane	1490	1493
11		Ashikaga Yoshizumi	1495	1508
(10)		Ashikaga Yoshitane	1508	1522
12		Ashikaga Yoshiharu	1522	de jure 1547
				de facto 1550
13		Ashikaga Yoshiteru	1547	1565
14		Ashikaga Yoshihide	1568
15		Ashikaga Yoshiaki	1568	deposed 1573
				abdicated 1588

Timeline

Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568–1600)

See main article: Azuchi–Momoyama period. The following were military dictators of Japan, de facto shoguns from 1568 to 1598. They unified the country, which at the start were a chaotic patchwork of warring clans.

	Portrait	Name	de facto shogun from	de facto shogun until
1		Oda Nobunaga	1568	de jure 1575
				de facto 1582
2		Oda Nobutada	1575	1582
3		Oda Hidenobu	1582	1583
1		Toyotomi Hideyoshi	1585	de jure 1592
				de facto 1598
2		Toyotomi Hidetsugu	1592	1595
3		Toyotomi Hideyori	1598	de jure 1603

From 1598 to 1600, the de facto shogunate was delegated to the Council of Five Elders.

Tokugawa shogunate (1600–1868)

See main article: Tokugawa shogunate.

	Portrait	Name	Shogun from	Shogun until
1		Tokugawa Ieyasu	de facto 1600	de jure 1605
			de jure 1603	de facto 1616
2		Tokugawa Hidetada	1605	de jure 1623
				de facto 1632
3		Tokugawa Iemitsu	1623	1651
4		Tokugawa Ietsuna	1651	1680
5		Tokugawa Tsunayoshi	1680	1709
6		Tokugawa Ienobu	1709	1712
7		Tokugawa Ietsugu	1713	1716
8		Tokugawa Yoshimune	1716	de jure 1745
				de facto 1751
9		Tokugawa Ieshige	1745	de jure 1760
				de facto 1761
10		Tokugawa Ieharu	1760	1786
11		Tokugawa Ienari	1787	de jure 1837
				de facto 1841
12		Tokugawa Ieyoshi	1837	1853
13		Tokugawa Iesada	1853	1858
14		Tokugawa Iemochi	1858	1866
15		Tokugawa Yoshinobu	1866	1867

Timeline

See also

• Emperor of Japan
  • List of emperors of Japan
• History of Japan
• Daimyo
• Han system
  • Abolition of the han system

Bibliography

• Friday, Karl (2007). The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado. John Wiley and Sons. .

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Shogun. Encyclopædia Britannica. 10 June 2022.
2. Friday, 2007:108.