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Ashikaga Yoshihisa

Type Figure Region Japan Time 1465–1489 Also known as Yoshihisa、9th shogun

Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465–1489), 9th shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, succeeded his father Yoshimasa in 1473;…

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  1. 1473–1477Kyoto · KyotoIn 1473 he accepted Yoshimasa's abdication and took office as the 9th shogun; soon the Ōnin War broke out in full, Kyoto became a battlefield, and shogunal authority existed in name only.
  2. 1477–1489Ōmi Province · Ōmi ProvinceAfter 1477 he led troops campaigning in Ōmi, Kawachi, and elsewhere against the Yamana clan's West Army; in the 1480s the fighting spread nationwide. In 1489 he died of illness in the army in Ōmi at only twenty-five, plunging shogunal succession into chaos once more.

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