Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Politician
1435 – 1490
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Who was Ashikaga Yoshimasa?
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori.
On the August 16, 1443, 10-year-old shogun Yoshikatsu died of injuries sustained in a fall from a horse. He had been shogun for only three years. Immediately, the bakufu elevated Yoshinari, the young shogun's even younger brother, to be the new shogun. Several years after becoming shogun, Yoshinari changed his name to Yoshimasa, by which name he is better known.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1435
Kyoto - Siblings
- Children
- Nationality
- Japan
- Died
- Jan 28, 1490
Kyoto
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on July 23, 2013
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