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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 157,123 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ashikaga Yoshimasa is the 6,769th most popular politician (down from 6,299th in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from Japan (up from 515th in 2019) and the 205th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 6,769 out of 15,577Before him are Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Peter II, Count of Savoy, Blanche of Artois, Cleph, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, and Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria. After him are Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Lucius Verginius Rufus, Aristobulus II, and Yoshihiko Noda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1435, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 10Before him are Andrea della Robbia, Jacob Sprenger, Bernt Notke, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, Michael Pacher, and Johannes Tinctoris. After him are Pietro Lombardo, Sittişah Hatun, Konstantin Mihailović, and Giovanni Santi. Among people deceased in 1490, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 6Before 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 and Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 512 out of 6,048Before him are Fujiwara no Michinaga (966), Seki Matsunaga (1928), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), Seishiro Shimatani (1938), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), and Seiichi Itō (1890). After him are Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), Kondō Isami (1834), Sadaharu Oh (1940), and Taro Kagawa (1922).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimasa ranks 205Before him are Emperor Kazan (967), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Emperor Juntoku (1197), Yamada Nagamasa (1590), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), and Fujiwara no Michinaga (966). After him are Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Kondō Isami (1834), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Masaharu Homma (1888), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Takahashi Korekiyo (1854).