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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashikaga Yoshihisa has received more than 88,212 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ashikaga Yoshihisa is the 8,792nd most popular politician (up from 8,798th in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from Japan (up from 726th in 2019) and the 265th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 8,792 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Raoni Metuktire, Ignazio La Russa, Giuseppe Zanardelli, and Regalianus. After him are Nasr of Granada, Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Nebettawy, Arsenije III Čarnojević, and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 15. Before him are Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, Konrad Peutinger, Jan Provoost, and Shō Shin. After him are Johann von Staupitz, Philotheus of Pskov, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Beatriz Galindo, Hector Boece, and Cassandra Fedele. Among people deceased in 1489, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 1. After him are Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Simon Marmion, and Bahlul Lodi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 707 out of 6,245. Before him are Prince Morikuni (1301), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Yoshinobu Ishii (1939), Setsu Sawagata (null), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), and Ueda Akinari (1734). After him are Shinichi Suzuki (1898), Sakae Takahashi (null), Takeo Takahashi (1947), Masashi Watanabe (1936), Shintaro Abe (1924), and Shiro Azumi (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa ranks 265. Before him are Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628), Shō Shin (1465), Takako Shimazu (1939), Keisai Eisen (1790), and Prince Morikuni (1301). After him are Shintaro Abe (1924), Katō Tomosaburō (1861), Yamamoto Kansuke (1493), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Donald Tsang (1944), and Kisshomaru Ueshiba (1921).

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