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Ashikaga Yoshiharu

1511 - 1550

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Ashikaga Yoshiharu (足利 義晴; April 2, 1511 – May 20, 1550) was the twelfth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of the eleventh shōgun Ashikaga Yoshizumi. From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shogun when the first contact of Japan with the European West took place in 1543. A Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ashikaga Yoshiharu is the 10,768th most popular politician (down from 10,667th in 2019). (up from 2,416th in 2019)

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Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshiharu ranks 10,768 out of 19,576Before him are Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, Christophe Soglo, Zhao Leji, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia, and Irene Laskarina. After him are Mark Gordon, Jamil Mahuad, Nithard, Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man, Ivars Godmanis, and Zdeněk Fierlinger.

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Among people born in 1511, Ashikaga Yoshiharu ranks 9Before him are Henry, Duke of Cornwall, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Ippolito de' Medici, Erasmus Reinhold, and Francisco López de Gómara. After him are Nicola Vicentino, Juan Pizarro, and Pierre Viret. Among people deceased in 1550, Ashikaga Yoshiharu ranks 17Before him are Pir Sultan Abdal, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Jón Arason, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, Isabel Moctezuma, and John Major. After him are Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Georg Pencz, and Ambrosius Benson.

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