Ashikaga Yoshiaki

✶December 15, 1537

†October 9, 1597

1 candle burning, 12 lit in all

About their life

Ashikaga Yoshiaki was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the 15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573 when he staged a revolt and was overthrown. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, was the twelfth shōgun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, was the thirteenth shōgun.

15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)

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Biography from the article Ashikaga Yoshiaki on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.