Ashikaga Yoshihide

Ashikaga Yoshihide 足利 義栄
Shōgun
In office 1564–1568
Monarch	Ōgimachi
Preceded by	Ashikaga Yoshiteru
Succeeded by	Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Personal details
Born	1538
Died	(1568-10-28)October 28, 1568
Parents	Ashikaga Yoshitsuna (father) daughter of Ōuchi Yoshioki (mother)

Ashikaga Yoshihide (足利 義栄, 1538 – October 28, 1568) was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shōgun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide.^[1] In 1568, Yoshihide became Sei-i Taishōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the thirteenth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.^[2]

Shortly after having been proclaimed shōgun, Yoshihide died from a contagious disease. In the same month, Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto. He seized control of the capital.^[3] Nobunaga installed Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the fifteenth shōgun.^[4]

• Father: Ashikaga Yoshitsuna
• Mother: daughter of Ouchi Yoshiyuki
• Wife: Yuki no Tsubone

The year in which Yoshihide was shogun is encompassed within a single era name or nengō.^[5]

• Eiroku (1558–1570)

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