ASHIKAGA YOSHIAKI

was the '15th shogun' of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth shogun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was the thirteenth shogun.
The absence of a ''de facto'' central authority in the capital of Japan had lasted until the warlord Oda Nobunaga's armies entered Kyoto in 1568, re-establishing the Muromachi Shogunate under the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to begin the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Ashikaga Yoshihide, the fourteenth shogun, was deposed without ever entering the capital. However, despite a renewed central authority in Kyoto and Nobunaga's attempt to unify the country, the struggle for power among warring states continued until unification and final peace was achieved long after his assassination in 1582.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who would later unite Japan, had wanted the Ashikaga Yoshiaki to accept him as an adopted son, but was refused.
The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in August 27, 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, although Yoshiaki still officially held the shogun position until 1588.
==Eras of Yoshiaki's ''bakufu==
The years in which Yoshiaki was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or ''nengō''.

★ ''Eiroku'' (1558-1570)

★ ''Genki'' (1570-1573)

★ ''Tenshō'' (1573-1592)

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★ Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], ''Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon.'' Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--''Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006.'' Click here to read the original text in French.

Preceded by: 'Ashikaga Yoshihide'

'Muromchi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshiaki' 1568–1588

Succeeded by: Sengoku period