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Ashikaga Yoshihide

1538 - 1568

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Ashikaga Yoshihide (足利 義栄, 1538 – October 28, 1568) was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shōgun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashikaga Yoshihide has received more than 90,631 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ashikaga Yoshihide is the 9,704th most popular politician (up from 9,843rd in 2019), the 788th most popular biography from Japan (up from 807th in 2019) and the 284th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshihide ranks 9,704 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Enrique Cerezo, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, John Atta Mills, and Fredrik Reinfeldt. After him are Jack Lang, Chungsuk of Goryeo, Princess Olga Paley, Zbigniew Religa, René Duguay-Trouin, and Dmitry Peskov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1538, Ashikaga Yoshihide ranks 12. Before him are Matija Gubec, Diane de France, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Infanta Maria of Guimarães, Louis of Nassau, and Hōjō Ujimasa. After him are Turibius of Mogrovejo, and Matthias de l'Obel. Among people deceased in 1568, Ashikaga Yoshihide ranks 15. Before him are Andrés de Urdaneta, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, Nicolaus Olahus, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Gaspar Becerra. After him are Garcia de Orta, Lady Katherine Grey, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen, William Turner, and Roger Ascham.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihide ranks 788 out of 6,245. Before him are Prince Koreyasu (1264), Sanjō Sanetomi (1837), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Chishū Ryū (1904). After him are Jirō Minami (1874), Yusuke Omi (1946), Yumi Umeoka (1950), Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), and Tsuyoshi Kunieda (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihide ranks 284. Before him are Prince Munetaka (1242), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Shō Hashi (1371), Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386), Prince Koreyasu (1264), and Sanjō Sanetomi (1837). After him are Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Takizawa Bakin (1767), Kujō Yoritsugu (1239), Shigeru Kayano (1926), Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), and Kōichi Kido (1889).

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