Yoshiteru Ashikaga - Yoshiteru Ashikaga

Japanese: 足利義輝 - あしかがよしてる

Born: Tenbun 5 (1536). March 10, Kyoto
[Died] May 19, 1565. 13th Shogun of the Kyoto Muromachi Shogunate (in office 1546-65). Son of Yoshiharu. Mother was the daughter of Konoe Hisamichi. Childhood name was Kikudo. Initially named Yoshito. Changed his name to Yoshiteru on February 12, 1554. In the 15th year of the same year, he became Left Horse Captain with Junior Fifth Rank, and shortly after succeeding his father Yoshiharu as Seii Taishogun, he was promoted to Junior Fourth Rank, and on February 17 the following year, he became Councillor Left Middle Captain. In the same year, in the conflict between Hosokawa Harumoto and Hatakeyama Masakuni, he sided with Hatakeyama, and the Hosokawa forces attacked Kitashirakawa Castle in the north of Kyoto. He fled to Sakamoto in Omi with his father. Later, he made peace with Harumoto, and returned to Kyoto in June of the 17th year of the same year. However, in the following year, 1805, Harumoto fought in Settsu with his vassal Miyoshi Nagayoshi and was defeated, so Yoshiharu and his son moved back to Sakamoto with Harumoto. On May 4, 1806, Yoshiharu died of illness and Yoshiteru succeeded him as head of the family. In 1817, due to the Miyoshi clan's invasion of Omi, they moved from Sakamoto to Kutsuki in Takashima County, further north in the mountains, but in 1818, a peace treaty was made with the Miyoshi clan, and Harumoto fled from Katata and Yoshiteru returned to Kyoto. In July of the following year, 1822, when Nagayoshi invaded Kyoto, they fled from Sugizaka in Yamashiro to Ryuga in Omi, and Kyoto came under Nagayoshi's control, so Yoshiteru's whereabouts became unknown. In the first year of the Eiroku era (58), Yoshiteru and Harumoto came to Ryugasaki from Kutsuki, and with the help of Rokkaku Yoshikata of Omi, they moved their camp to Sakamoto, and advanced westward, fighting against the Miyoshi forces in Kyoto, but in November a peace agreement was reached and they entered the capital. In the seventh year of the Eiroku era (64), Nagayoshi died, and the following year his successor, Yoshitsugu, and his vassal Matsunaga Hisahide, who had wielded sovereignty, suddenly attacked his residence in Kyoto, and Yoshiteru committed suicide.

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[生]天文5(1536).3.10. 京都
[没]永禄8(1565).5.19. 京都
室町幕府 13代将軍 (在職 1546～65) 。義晴の子。母は近衛尚通の娘。幼名は菊童。初名は義藤。天文 23 (1554) 年2月 12日義輝と改名。同 15年正五位下左馬頭となり，日ならずして父義晴の譲りを受けて征夷大将軍となり，従四位下に進み，翌年2月 17日参議左中将。この年，細川晴元と畠山政国の争いに，畠山にくみしたため，細川勢に洛北の北白川城を攻められ，父とともに近江坂本へ逃れた。のち晴元と和し，同 17年6月帰洛した。しかし翌 18年晴元が家臣三好長慶と摂津に戦って敗れたため，義晴父子は晴元とともに再び坂本へ移った。同 19年5月4日義晴が病没したので，義輝が家督を継いだ。同 20年三好氏の近江進攻により，坂本からさらに北の山中の高島郡朽木に移ったが，同 21年には三好氏との和約ができ，晴元は堅田から出奔し，義輝は京都に帰った。翌 22年7月長慶の京都侵入により，山城杉坂から近江竜華に逃れ，京都は長慶の制圧するところとなり，義輝の動静は不明となる。永禄1 (58) 年朽木から竜華に出てきた義輝，晴元主従は，近江の六角義賢の助けを得て坂本に陣を移し，西進して三好軍と京都攻防戦を重ねたが，11月和議が成立して入洛した。永禄7 (64) 年7月長慶が没すると，翌年その後嗣義継と，専権をふるっていた義継の臣松永久秀に京亭を急襲され，義輝は自殺した。

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