Ashikaga clan

Ashikaga clan 足利氏
Ashikaga Futatsubiki (足利二つ引き), the Ashikaga family crest
Parent house	Seiwa Genji (Minamoto clan)
Titles	Various
Founder	Minamoto no Yoshiyasu (Ashikaga Yoshiyasu)
Final ruler	Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Ruled until	1573, Ashikaga shogunate deposed by Oda Nobunaga
Cadet branches	Hosokawa clan Imagawa clan Hatakeyama clan (restored line) Kira clan Shiba clan Hachisuka clan others

The Ashikaga clan (足利氏 Ashikaga-shi) was a prominent Japanese samurai clan which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573.^[1]

The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga in Shimotsuke province (modern-day Tochigi prefecture).

For about a century the clan was divided in two rival branches, the Kantō Ashikaga, who ruled from Kamakura, and the Kyōto Ashikaga, rulers of Japan. The rivalry ended with the defeat of the first in 1439. The clan had many notable branch clans, including the Hosokawa, Imagawa, Hatakeyama (after 1205), Kira , Shiba, and Hachisuka clans. After the head family of the Minamoto clan died out during the early Kamakura period, the Ashikaga came to style themselves as the head of the Minamoto, coopting the prestige which came with that name.

Another Ashikaga clan, not related by blood, and derived instead from the Fujiwara clan, also existed.

Clan heads

1. Ashikaga Yoshiyasu[2] 2. Ashikaga Yoshikane[3] 3. Ashikaga Yoshiuji 4. Ashikaga Yasuuji

5. Ashikaga Yoriuji 6. Ashikaga Ietoki 7. Ashikaga Sadauji 8. Ashikaga Takauji[4]

Shoguns

1. Ashikaga Takauji 2. Ashikaga Yoshiakira[5] 3. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu[6] 4. Ashikaga Yoshimochi[7] 5. Ashikaga Yoshikazu[8] 6. Ashikaga Yoshinori[9] 7. Ashikaga Yoshikatsu[10] 8. Ashikaga Yoshimasa[11]

9. Ashikaga Yoshihisa[12] 10. Ashikaga Yoshitane[13] 11. Ashikaga Yoshizumi[14] 12. Ashikaga Yoshiharu[15] 13. Ashikaga Yoshiteru[16] 14. Ashikaga Yoshihide[17] 15 Ashikaga Yoshiaki[18]

Notable

• Ashikaga Chachamaru^[19]
• Ashikaga Masatomo^[20]
• Ashikaga Mitsukane^[21]
• Ashikaga Mochiuji^[22]
• Ashikaga Motouji^[23]
• Ashikaga Satouji
• Ashikaga Shigeuji^[24]
• Ashikaga Tadafuyu^[25][26]
• Ashikaga Tadayoshi^[27]
• Ashikaga Tadatsuna
• Ashikaga Ujimitsu^[28]
• Ashikaga Yoshimi^[29]

Family tree

See also

• Muromachi period
• Kantō Kubō
• Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara)

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ashikaga" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 53-57, p. 53, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
2. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiyasu" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
3. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikane" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
4. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Takauji" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
5. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiakira" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
6. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
7. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimochi" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
8. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikazu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
9. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshinori" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
10. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikatsu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
11. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimasa" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
12. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihisa" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
13. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshitane" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
14. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshizumi" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
15. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiharu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
16. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiteru" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
17. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihide" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
18. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
19. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Chachamaru" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
20. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Masatomo" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
21. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mitsukane" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
22. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mochiuji" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
23. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Motouji" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
24. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Shigeuji" at pp. 54-55., p. 54, at Google Books
25. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadafuyu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
26. Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford University Press. p. 81-82,90-91,95,97. ISBN 0804705259.
27. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadayoshi" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
28. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Ujimitsu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
29. Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimi" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128