Ashikaga Yoshihide

was the 14th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shogun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide.

• Eiroku 11, in the 2nd month (1568): Yoshihide became Seii Taishogun three years after the death of his cousin, the thirteenth shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

Events of Yoshihide's bakufu

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

Era of Yoshihide's bakufu

The years in which Yoshihide was shogun are encompassed within a single era name or nengō.

• Eiroku (1558-1570)

Notes

References

• Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. 10-ISBN 0-702-21485-X; 13-ISBN 978-0-702-21485-1 (cloth)
• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Click for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French).

Preceded by: Ashikaga Yoshiteru	Muromachi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshihide 1568	Succeeded by: Ashikaga Yoshiaki