Ashikaga Yoshikane

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ashikaga.
Ashikaga Yoshikane

Ashikaga Yoshikane (足利義兼, c. 1154 – April 5, 1199) was a Japanese samurai military commander, feudal lord in the late Heian and early Kamakura period of Japan's history.[1] He played an active part in the Jishō-Juei War and the later military campaign as a closely related person of the first Kamakura shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo, and made Ashikaga clan influential position in gokenin vassal of the Kamakura shogunate.

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ashikaga Yoshikane" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 56, p. 56, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.