Ashikaga Yoshihide

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Ashikaga Yoshihide
足利 義栄
Shōgun
In office
1564–1568
MonarchŌgimachi
Preceded byAshikaga Yoshiteru
Succeeded byAshikaga Yoshiaki
Personal details
Born1538
Died(1568-10-28)October 28, 1568
Parents

Ashikaga Yoshihide (足利 義栄, 1538 – October 28, 1568) was the 14th

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

nengō.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 386–387., p. 386, at Google Books
  2. ^ Titsingh, pp. 385–386., p. 385, at Google Books
  3. ^ Titsingh, p. 386., p. 386, at Google Books
  4. ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
  5. ^ Titsingh, pp. 382–388., p. 382, at Google Books

References

Preceded by
Shōgun
:
Ashikaga Yoshihide

1568
Succeeded by