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| | Ashikaga Yoshiharu - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ashikaga Yoshiharu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | 足利 義晴, April 2, 1511–May 20, 1550) was the 12th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1521 to 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. |
 | | 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. |
 | | From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shogun in 1542, when the first contact of Japan with the European West when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan. |
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