Ashikaga Yoshiaki 足利 義昭 | |
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| Shōgun | |
| In office 1568–1573 | |
| Monarch | Ōgimachi |
| Preceded by | Ashikaga Yoshihide |
| Succeeded by | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
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| Born | 5 December 1537 Ashikaga shogunate |
| Died | 19 October 1597 (aged 59) Azuchi–Momoyama period |
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Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭, 5 December 1537 – 19 October 1597)[1] was the 15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573 when he staged a revolt and was overthrown.[2] His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, was the twelfth shōgun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, was the thirteenth shōgun.[3]
- ^ "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 625.
- ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 385–389., p. 385, at Google Books