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  Ashikaga Yoshiaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭 Ashikaga Yoshiaki, December 5, 1537–October 9, 1597) was the 15th, and last, shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573.
His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu (April 2, 1510–May 20, 1550) was the 12th shogun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru (March 31, 1536–June 17, 1565) was the 13th shogun.
Ashikaga Yoshihide, the 14th shogun, was deposed without ever entering the capital.
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 Ashikaga shogunate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ashikaga shogunate (Japanese 足利幕府, Ashikaga bakufu, 1336–1573) was a feudal military dictatorship ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga family.
The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove the 15th and last Ashikaga shogun Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.
Afterwards, Yoshiaki sought and received protection from the Mori clan in western Japan and later was requested by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to accept him as an adopted son and 16th Ashikaga Shogun but Yoshiaki refused.
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 Aoki - Ayukawa
Yoshiaki was the 2nd son of Ashikaga Yoshiharu and was born on 5 December 1537.
Yoshiaki was a son of Ashikaga Masauji (1466-1531) and a grandson of Ashikaga Shigeuji.
Haruuji was the son of Ashikaga Takamoto (1485-1535) and was married to the the daughter of Hôjô Ujitsuna.
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 Matsunaga Hisahide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1565 the guardians and Hisahide worked together and dispatched an army to capture Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the shogun, who was then either murdered or forced to commit suicide, he was replaced by the child Yoshihide and the shogun's brother Yoshiaki fled.
In 1568 Oda Nobunaga, with the figurehead Yoshiaki, attacked Hisahide.
Yoshiaki was made shogun, a post he held only until 1573 when he attempted to remove himself from Nobunaga's power.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiaki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yoshiaki's elder brother, Yoshiteru, the then shogun, was murdered by Matsunaga Hisahide, his accomplices.
Yoshiaki, still a child, had been ordained and was living in the temple of Kofuku-ji in Nara under the religious name of Kakkei.
But Yoshiaki's relations with Nobunaga soured, and in the spring of 1573 he brought things to a head by challenging the daimyo and holding out against him in the shogunal castle at Nijo in Kyoto.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Yoshiaki made it known that he intended to succeed his brother, whose post was now being filled by a 2-year old child, the puppet Ashikaga Yoshihide.
In mid-November the Emperor Ogimachi formally acknowledged Yoshiaki as the new Shogun.
Yoshiaki had hoped to tie up Nobunaga long enough for his allies to intercede (Makinoshima was a formidable defensive location), but by 18 August spirited attacks by the Oda had forced Yoshiaki into submission.
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 Persons of Ancient Japan
Ashikaga (family): Japanese family that occupied the office of shogun from 1338 to 1573, known as the Muromachi period because the shogun's palace was in the Muromachi district of Kyoto.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa (reigned 1449-1474) was unable to stop the devastating Onin War (1467-1477) between the great daimyo, and after he abdicated in 1474 to devote himself to the arts, a succession dispute hastened the family's decline.
The Ashikaga shoguns became puppets of the contending daimyo in the bitter fighting of the 16th century, the so-called Epoch of Warring States.
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 Ashikaga Shogunate - Freecyclopedia.com :: The World Bank of Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Redirected from Ashikaga shogun The Ashikaga Shogunate (足利幕府;; Ashikaga-bakufu, 1336 - 1573) was a feudal military dictatorship ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga family.
The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove the 14th and last Ashikaga shogun Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.
Afterwards, Yoshiaki sought and received protection from the Mori clan in western Japan and later was requested by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to accept him as an adopted son and 15th shogun but Yoshiaki refused.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiteru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
足利 義輝; March 31, 1536–June 17, 1565) was the 13th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period of Japan.
He was the eldest son of the 12th shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
His younger brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki became 15th shogun.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiaki --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yoshiaki had been a priest, but in 1568, with the aid of his protector, the general Oda Nobunaga, he deposed his cousin Yoshihide and took over the shogunate.
Ashikaga Takauji, who established the Ashikaga shogunate in the 14th century, was born there.
Ashikaga was a post town on the Nikko Highway during the Tokugawa era (1603–1867).
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 Muromachi_period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Muromachi period (室町時代;, Muromachi jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Muromachi bakufu, the Ashikaga era, the Ashikaga period, or the Ashikaga bakufu) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
The ensuing period of Ashikaga rule (1336–1573) was called Muromachi for the district in which its headquarters were in Kyōto after the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence in 1378.
What distinguished the Ashikaga bakufu from that of Kamakura was that, whereas Kamakura had existed in equilibrium with the Kyōto court, Ashikaga took over the remnants of the imperial government.
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 Ashikaga Yoshihide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
足利 義栄 Ashikaga Yoshihide, 1538 – October 28, 1568) was the 14th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned shortly from February to September of 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
He was the grandson of the 11th shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.
In September of 1568, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto, seized the capital, and installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th shogun.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiharu - PakAF.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the son of the 11th shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.
After the 10th shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate in 1521, Yoshitane ran away to Awaji Island and Yoshiharu was installed as a puppet shogun.
Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the 15th shogun.
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 Ashikaga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The line's founder, Ashikaga Takauji, rebelled in 1333 against the last Hojo shogun in favour of Emperor Go-Daigo.
The Ashikaga then tried to reunify the country, but were unable ever to fully control the daimyo.
The Ashikaga shogunate was finally brought down by the warlord Oda Nobunaga, who first installed then (1573) toppled the last Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiaki (reigned 1568-1588).
www.compsoc.net /~gemini/simons/historyweb/ashikaga.html   (265 words)

  
 Muromachi period - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Muromachi period (室町時代;, also known as Muromachi era, Muromachi bakufu, Ashikaga era, Ashikaga period, and Ashikaga bakufu) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
The ensuing period of Ashikaga rule (1336-1573) was called Muromachi for the district in which its headquarters were in Kyoto after the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence in 1378.
What distinguished the Ashikaga bakufu from that of Kamakura was that, whereas Kamakura had existed in equilibrium with the Kyoto court, Ashikaga took over the remnants of the imperial government.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Muromachi_period   (1440 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ashikaga Yoshiaki 1537 - 1597 Carving of Ashikaga Yoshiaki At the time of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's murder in 1565, Yoshiaki was known as Kakukei, the abbot of the Ichijoin in Nara...
Ashikaga Yoshiaki Shimôsa warlord d.1538 Koga-Kubo Yoshiaki was a son of Ashikaga Masauji (1466-1531) and...
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 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The period of Ashikaga rule is also known as the Muromachi period.
Yoshiaki was not quite as tame as Nobunaga thought however – Yoshiaki conspired with Takeda Shingen to free himself from Oda's control.
Nobunaga deposed Yoshiaki in 1673 and didn't bother replacing him, which is a pretty good indication of just how powerless / meaningless the Shōgunate had become.
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 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In part because the founder of the Ashikaga shōgunate, Ashikaga Takauji, did so by siding with the Emperor against the previous Kamakura Shōgunate, the Ashikaga shared more of the governmental authority with the Imperial government than the Kamakura had.
The Ashikaga shōgunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove the 15th and last Ashikaga shōgun Yoshiaki out of Kyōto.
Yoshiaki was not quite as tame as Nobunaga thought however – he conspired with Takeda Shingen to free himself from Oda's control.
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 The Real-Life Oda Nobunaga In His Thirties and Forties, 1571 - 1582   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ashikaga got back to his previous way of life: nomadic bum with incurable manic for deadly conspiracies and unquenchable illusion of grandeur.
But Takeda got shot by a Tokugawa soldier and died on Ashikaga just before the war got anywhere (click here for story and pictures), although this death was kept a secret for the next three years just as Takeda's testament said.
Ashikaga turned to warrior-monks again, and a few other warlike peoples, dispatching letters asking them to wage war against Oda Nobunaga or to send assassins to do the job in hush-hush whenever Oda came to Kyoto.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiaki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His father, (Click link for more info and facts about Ashikaga Yoshiharu) Ashikaga Yoshiharu (April 2, 1510–May 20, 1550) was the 12th shogun, and his brother, (Click link for more info and facts about Ashikaga Yoshiteru) Ashikaga Yoshiteru (March 31, 1536–June 17, 1565) was the 13th shogun.
(Click link for more info and facts about Ashikaga Yoshihide) Ashikaga Yoshihide, the 14th shogun, was deposed without ever entering the capital.
(Click link for more info and facts about Toyotomi Hideyoshi) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who would later unite Japan, had wanted the Ashikaga Yoshiaki to accept him as an adopted son, but was refused.
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 Muromachi period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga Shogunate which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Takauji.
The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga.
The early years of 1336 to 1392 of the Muromachi period is also known as the Nanboku-cho or Northern and Southern Court period.
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 Ashikaga Yoshiaki - TheBestLinks.com - History, Japan, Japanese language, Oda Nobunaga, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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足利 義昭, 1537–1597) was the 15th, and last, shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573.
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 More Worlds to Conquer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oda Nobunaga threw his considerable support behind Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the Shogun of Japan, but the super daimyo's rapid rise to prominence soon prompted Yoshiaki to enter into a conspiracy with Oda's enemies in an effort to check his growing power.
The conspiracy gave Oda Nobunaga an excuse to move against Ashikaga Yoshiaki and terminate the shogunate.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki fled to the Chugoku at the western extermity of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where he gained the support of two powerful daimyo in the region: Mori Motonari and Uesugi Kenshin.
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