Ashikaga Yoshihide

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He became shōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the 13th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref>

When Yoshihide became shōgun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga; however, today, he is more conventionally recognized by the name Yoshihide.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Biography

Shortly after having been proclaimed shōgun, Yoshihide died from a contagious disease. In the same month, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto, the capital, and seized control.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref> Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shōgun.<ref>Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.</ref>

Family

• Father: Ashikaga Yoshitsuna
• Mother: Daughter of Ōuchi Yoshioki
• Wife: Yuki no Tsubone

Era of Yoshihide's bakufu

The year in which Yoshihide was shogun is encompassed within a single era name or nengō.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

• Eiroku (1558–1570)

References

• Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN; 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