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Ashikaga Yoshimasa

1435 - 1490

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Ashikaga Yoshimasa (足利 義政, January 20, 1436 – January 27, 1490) was the eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashikaga Yoshimasa has received more than 170,170 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ashikaga Yoshimasa is the 6,197th most popular politician (up from 6,752nd in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Japan (up from 510th in 2019) and the 184th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 6,197 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, H. H. Kung, Anna of Saxony, Khyan, and Francisco Craveiro Lopes. After him are Archduke Felix of Austria, Emperor Takakura, Khamudi, René Viviani, Artur da Costa e Silva, and Tokugawa Ieyoshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1435, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 9. Before him are Andrea della Robbia, Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, Bernt Notke, Jacob Sprenger, and Michael Pacher. After him are Johannes Tinctoris, Pietro Lombardo, Sittişah Hatun, Konstantin Mihailović, Giovanni Santi, and Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. Among people deceased in 1490, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 6. Before him are Matthias Corvinus, Carlo Crivelli, Charles I, Duke of Savoy, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, and Laonikos Chalkokondyles. After him are Joanna, Princess of Portugal, Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale, Hans Talhoffer, and Pedro Tafur.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 454 out of 6,245. Before him are Kido Takayoshi (1833), Masao Uchino (1934), Tomitaro Makino (1862), Masafumi Hara (1943), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), and Rei Kawakubo (1942). After him are Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), and Nobutake Kondō (1886).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 184. Before him are Muryeong of Baekje (462), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Minoru Genda (1904), Emperor Hanazono (1297), Kido Takayoshi (1833), and Rei Kawakubo (1942). After him are Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), and Keizō Obuchi (1937).

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