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Ashikaga Yoshihisa

1465 - 1489

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Ashikaga Yoshihisa (足利 義尚; December 11, 1465 – April 26, 1489) was the 9th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa with his wife Hino Tomiko. Since the almost 30-year-old shōgun Yoshimasa had no heir by 1464, he adopted his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshimi to succeed him. However, Yoshihisa was born in the next year starting a struggle for succession between brothers that erupted into the Ōnin War starting in 1467, beginning the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ashikaga Yoshihisa is the 9,265th most popular politician (down from 8,786th in 2024), the 769th most popular biography from Japan (down from 707th in 2019) and the 257th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 9,265 out of 19,576. Before him are Sunyer, Count of Barcelona, Noman Çelebicihan, Koçi Xoxe, Alain I of Albret, Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Anastasio Bustamante. After him are Bernhard Förster, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Peko Dapčević, Richomeres, Sedjefakare, and Ahmed Nihad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 14. Before him are Gil Vicente, Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Jan Provoost, Bramantino, and Shō Shin. After him are Johann von Staupitz, Konrad Peutinger, Philotheus of Pskov, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Cassandra Fedele, and Beatriz Galindo. Among people deceased in 1489, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 2. Before him is Bahlul Lodi. After him are Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Simon Marmion.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 769 out of 6,245. Before him are Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (1887), Nobuko Kondo (1956), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Masateru Akita (1982), and Motoori Norinaga (1730). After him are Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Daidō Moriyama (1938), Soga no Umako (551), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Satoru Nakajima (1953), and Itagaki Taisuke (1837).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 257. Before him are Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Shintaro Abe (1924), Prince Morikuni (1301), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Jiro Taniguchi (1947). After him are Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Hiranuma Kiichirō (1867), and Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394).

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