Ashikaga Yoshiaki

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Ashikaga Yoshiaki ( Japanese 足 利 義 昭 , * December 5, 1537 in Japan , † October 19, 1597 in Osaka ) was the 15th and last shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan. He ruled from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu , was the 12th Shogun and his brother Ashikaga Yoshiteru was the 13th Shogun.

The lack of a de facto central authority in the capital was ended when the armies of warlord Oda Nobunaga entered Kyoto in 1568. He put the Muromachi shogunate under the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki again and the Azuchi Momoyama period began . Ashikaga Yoshihide , the 14th Shogun, was deposed without ever having entered the capital. Despite a renewed central power in Kyōto and Nobunaga's attempt to unite the country, the power struggle of the warring states continued until the unification and the peace agreement, long after Nobunaga's assassination in 1582.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , the general who would later unite Japan, wanted to be adopted by Ashikaga Yoshiaki as a son, but was turned down.

The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed when Oda Nobunaga expelled Yoshiaki from Kyoto in 1573.

literature

  • E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/38265/Ashikaga-Yoshiaki
  2. ↑ E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 , p. 35.
  3. ↑ John Whitney Hall (Ed.): Fischer Weltgeschichte Vol. 20 The Japanese Empire, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-596-60020-0 , p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Ashikaga Yoshiaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 足 利 義 昭
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese shogun
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH Japan
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1597
Place of death Osaka