Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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9th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
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About Ashikaga Yoshihisa
- Ashikaga Yoshihisa (?? ??, December 11, 1465 – April 26, 1489) was the 9th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
- Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa with his wife Hino Tomiko.Since the almost 30-year-old shogun 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 Onin War starting in 1467, beginning the Sengoku period of Japanese history.
- In the middle of hostilities, Yoshimasa retired in 1473, relinquishing the position of Sei-i Taishogun to Yoshihisa.
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