Ashikaga Yoshihide

Ashikaga Yoshihide (足利 義栄, 1538 – October 28, 1568) was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shōgun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide.[1]

• Eiroku 11, in the 2nd month (1568): Yoshihide became Sei-i Taishōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the thirteenth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.[2]

Ashikaga Yoshihide 足利 義栄
Shōgun
In office 1564–1568
Monarch	Ōgimachi
Preceded by	Ashikaga Yoshiteru
Succeeded by	Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Personal details
Born	1538
Died	October 28, 1568
Mother	daughter of Ōuchi Yoshioki
Father	Ashikaga Yoshitsuna

Family

• Father: Ashikaga Yoshitsuna
• Mother: daughter of Ouchi Yoshiyuki
• Wife: Yuki no Tsubone

Events of Yoshihide's bakufu

Shortly after having been proclaimed shōgun, Yoshihide died from a contagious disease. In the same month, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto. He seized control of the capital.[3] Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shōgun.[4]

Era of Yoshihide's bakufu

The year in which Yoshihide was shogun is encompassed within a single era name or nengō.[5]

• Eiroku (1558–1570)

Notes

1. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 386–387., p. 386, at Google Books
2. Titsingh, pp. 385–386., p. 385, at Google Books
3. Titsingh, p. 386., p. 386, at Google Books
4. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
5. Titsingh, pp. 382–388., p. 382, at Google Books

References

• Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069