Word: ashikaga
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...Everything’s so big,” Narumi said, referring to American clothes. “And not cute.” As I was giving a tour of Harvard to a group of Japanese girls from Hakuoh High School in Ashikaga, Narumi and her two friends Chika and Mizuki informed me that American students aren’t, well, the best of dressers. They began to list the drab colors Americans seem to favor, and just as I was about to nod my head in agreement, I glanced down at my own clothes and realized...
...Ashikaga Yoshimasa may have been the worst of the shoguns. In his 30-year reign as Japan's supreme military commander (1443-1473), the power of the shogunate declined to a dismal low point, fracturing the empire into a patchwork of squabbling fiefdoms. Terrible famines ravaged the imperial capital of Kyoto and its surrounding provinces, and Yoshimasa did nothing to alleviate the suffering. His penchant for luxury brought the empire to the edge of financial ruin. When he finally realized that he was unfit to rule and decided to abdicate, his indecisiveness about naming a successor provoked the 10-year...
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