Ashikaga Yoshihide Explained

Ashikaga Yoshihide
Japanese: 足利 義栄
Office:Shōgun
Term Start:1564
Term End:1568
Predecessor:Ashikaga Yoshiteru
Successor:Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Father:Ashikaga Yoshitsuna
Mother:daughter of Ōuchi Yoshioki
Birth Date:1538

was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shōgun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide.[1] In 1568, Yoshihide became Sei-i Taishōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the thirteenth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.[2]

Biography

Shortly after having been proclaimed shōgun, Yoshihide died from a contagious disease. In the same month, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto. He seized control of the capital.[3] Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shōgun.[4]

Family

Era of Yoshihide's bakufu

The year in which Yoshihide was shogun is encompassed within a single era name or nengō.[5]

References

Notes and References

  1. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).
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  4. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
  5. Titsingh,