ASHIKAGA CLAN

'Ashikaga clan' (Japanese: 足利氏, ''Ashikaga-shi'') was a famous Japanese clan who established the Muromachi shogunate and begame the Shogunate during the Muromachi era.
Ashikaga is a branch of Minamoto clan from Shimotsuke Kuni, Ashikaga Shyou (Present day, Tochigi Prefecture, Ashikaga City).
It has many famous branch clans came from there including Hosokawa, Imagawa, Kira, Shiba, and Isshiki. After the head family of the Minamoto clan died out during the early Kamakura period, the Ashikaga clan was often considered as the head of Minamoto.
Another Ashikaga clan, derived from Fujiwara line also exists (see "See Also" for link).

Contents

The successive present head of a household

See Also

The successive present head of a household

#Ashikaga Yoshiyasu
#Ashikaga Yoshikane
#Ashikaga Yoshiyasu
#Ashikaga Yoshiuji
#Ashikaga Yasuuji
#Ashikaga Yoriuji
#Ashikaga Ietoki
#Ashikaga Sadauji
#Ashikaga Takauji

See Also

★ Ashikaga shogunate
Famous Ashikaga

★ Ashikaga Takauji

★ Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

★ Ashikaga Yoshimasa

★ Ashikaga, Tochigi

★ Ashikaga, Fujiwara line (in Japanese)