Ashikaga clan

This article is about the clan of the Askhikaga shogunate. For the Fujiwara clan, see Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara).

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.

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. Ashikaga Yoshikane
3. Ashikaga Yoshiuji
4. Ashikaga Yasuuji

5. Ashikaga Yoriuji
6. Ashikaga Ietoki
7. Ashikaga Sadauji
8. Ashikaga Takauji

Shoguns

1. Ashikaga Takauji
2. Ashikaga Yoshiakira
3. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
4. Ashikaga Yoshimochi
5. Ashikaga Yoshikazu
6. Ashikaga Yoshinori
7. Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
8. Ashikaga Yoshimasa

9. Ashikaga Yoshihisa
10. Ashikaga Yoshitane
11. Ashikaga Yoshizumi
12. Ashikaga Yoshiharu
13. Ashikaga Yoshiteru
14. Ashikaga Yoshihide
15 Ashikaga Yoshiaki

Notable

• Ashikaga Chachamaru
• Ashikaga Masatomo
• Ashikaga Mitsukane
• Ashikaga Mochiuji
• Ashikaga Motouji
• Ashikaga Satouji
• Ashikaga Shigeuji
• Ashikaga Tadafuyu
• Ashikaga Tadayoshi
• Ashikaga Tadatsuna
• Ashikaga Ujimitsu
• Ashikaga Yoshimi

Family tree

See also

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

References

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

• 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.
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiyasu" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikane" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Takauji" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiakira" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimochi" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikazu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshinori" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshikatsu" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimasa" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihisa" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshitane" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshizumi" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiharu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiteru" at p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshihide" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Chachamaru" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Masatomo" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mitsukane" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Mochiuji" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Motouji" at p. 54., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Shigeuji" at pp. 54-55., p. 54, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadafuyu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Tadayoshi" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Ujimitsu" at p. 55., p. 55, at Google Books
• Nussbaum, "Ashikaga Yoshimi" at p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books