Ashikaga Yoshiteru

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**Ashikaga Yoshiteru**  (足利 (あしかが)義輝 (よしてる), *****Ashikaga Yoshiteru*****? Ashikaga Yoshiteru) is the current head (Sen1-7) of the Ashikaga Clan and shogun of Japan. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 1, and has appeared in all 7 of the games in the Sengoku Hime series.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 1:** The head of the fallen Shogunate.
A young shogun who is now wandering around the country with two aides because the Ashikaga Shogunate has disappeared.
Although he is young, he feels his pride and responsibility in his position.
However, because of his childhood, he is a little selfish and can bother the people around him.

足利幕府が消れたため現在は2人の側近とともに全国を彷徨っている幼い将軍。
幼いながらも自らの立場に誇りと責任を感じている。
しかし、その幼さ故に多少ワガママな面があり、周囲の人間を困らせることも･・・。
CV:成瀬未亜 原画:華師

**Sengoku Hime 2:** The head of the fallen Shogunate. A young shogun who is currently wandering around the country with his two aides because the Ashikaga Shogunate collapsed.
Although he is young, he feels his pride and responsibility in his position.
However, because of his childhood, he is a little selfish and can bother the people around him.

没落した将軍家の当主。足利幕府が潰れたため、現在は2人の側近とともに全国を彷徨っている幼い将軍。
幼いながも自らの立場に誇りと責任を感じている。
しかし、その幼さ故に多少ワガママな面があり、周囲の人間を困らせることも…。

**Sengoku Hime 3:** The thirteenth Shogun General, but the fame of the Shogunate has fallen to the ground, and he has become a general with only a name.
He roamed several homes, sometimes cooperating, sometimes hostile, and was restless and dotted.
He was taught the sword by Tsukahara Bokuden, and his arm is so called "Sword Shogun" that he cannot compete with most opponents.
He is also famous as a sword collector and possesses many famous swords such as "Dojigiri Yasutsuna" and "Onimaru Kunitsuna".

いくつかの家々を渡り歩き、時に協力し、時に敵対し、一所に落ち着く事がなく点々としていた。
剣聖塚原卜伝から剣の教えを受け、その腕は「抜刀将軍」と呼ばれる程で並大抵の相手では太刀打ちできない。
また、刀の収集家としても有名で「童子切安綱」「鬼丸国綱」など多数の名刀を所持している。
ＣＶ：ももぞの薫　デザイナー：ぽ～しょん

**Sengoku Hime 4:** The thirteenth Shogun General.
He was raised to be a shogun, and he has a magnificent personality and talk.
He succeeded to the shogunate but was absorbed in his hobby, neglecting his reign-he was absorbed in swordsmanship and was enthusiastic about collecting his famous sword, the treasure sword.
It is rumored that he died after being attacked by those who were planning to assassinate, perhaps because he had a gap in his body.

将軍となるべくして育てられたこともあり、尊大な性格と物言いをする人物。
将軍位を継ぎつつも治世をないがしろにして自らの趣味に没頭――剣術に夢中になり、名刀、宝刀の収拾に熱を上げていた。
それ故身辺に隙を生じたのか、ついには暗殺を目論む者たちに襲撃され、死亡したと噂されている。
【デザイナー：ぽ～しょん】　【演者：ももぞの薫】

**Sengoku Hime 5:** The thirteenth Shogun General. He was raised to be a shogun, and he has a magnificent personality and talk. He succeeded to the shogunate but was absorbed in his hobby, neglecting his reign-he was absorbed in swordsmanship and was enthusiastic about collecting his famous sword, the treasure sword. It is rumored that he died after being attacked by those who were planning to assassinate, perhaps because he had a gap in his body.

デザイナー：ぽ～しょんＣＶ：ももぞの薫

**Sengoku Hime 6:** The thirteenth Shogun General. He is a sword user who is called Shogun Sword. He is daring and cheerful, and can be forced to think about his surroundings. His hobby is collecting swords, and he is also absorbed in swordsmanship, so he hasn't done much about his reign. Therefore, it is rumored that he was born and died in an assassination attack.

**Sengoku Hime 7:** A shogun who possesses the five swords of the world and is called a "swordsman."
For Yoshiki, who was served as a just-named general and had no vassals to share his faith, collecting the five swords of the world and acquiring sword skills is the basis of his heart as a person.
It was a place. However, with the acquisition of Soma and Sochika, he awakens to what he should be as a general, and declares that he will calm the war and unify the world.

名ばかりの将軍として奉られ、信を分かち合える家臣も居なかった義輝にとって、天下五剣を集め、剣技を身につけることが人としての心の拠
り所だった。しかし、颯馬と宗近という二人を得たことで将軍としてあるべき姿に目覚め、戦乱を鎮めて天下を統一することを宣言する。
原画 キンタ
演者 手塚りょうこ

## Historial Infomation

Ashikaga Yoshiteru (足利 義輝, March 31, 1536 – June 17, 1565), also known as Yoshifushi or Yoshifuji, was the 13th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the eldest son of the 12th shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, and his mother was a daughter of Konoe Hisamichi (later called 慶寿院 Keijuin). When he became shogun in 1546 at age 11, Yoshiteru's name was Yoshifushi (sometimes transliterated as Yoshifuji); but some years later in 1554, he changed his name to the one by which he is conventionally known today. His childhood name was Kikubemaru (菊童丸). His younger brother Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shōgun.

After his father, Yoshiharu, was forced to retire in 1546 over a political struggle with Hosokawa Harumoto, Yoshiteru became Sei-i Taishōgun, albeit a puppet shōgun like his father. Yoshiteru was only 11 at the time and his investiture ceremony was held at Sakamoto, Ōmi Province, outside Kyoto.
Yoshiteru had barely been confirmed as shōgun when his father Yoshiharu made a truce with Harumoto to return to Kyoto. Yet, Harumoto's retainer Miyoshi Nagayoshi parted with Harumoto to take the side of Hosokawa Ujitsuna and the two Hosokawa started a war that drove out Yoshiteru, his father Yoshiharu, and Harumoto as well, from Kyoto. In 1550, Yoshiharu died in Ōmi, unable to return to Kyoto.
In 1552, Yoshiteru made a peace with Nagayoshi to return to Kyoto. However, the next year, Yoshiteru and Harumoto started a war against Nagayoshi to remove his influence. With the help of Rokkaku Yoshikata, the war initially went well for Yoshiteru but he was driven out of Kyoto again in 1558 with a counterattack from Nagayoshi. Nagayoshi did not press on after the victory to kill Yoshiteru for fear of being accused of killing a shogun, and instead signed a truce to have Yoshiteru back in Kyoto under his influence. Nagayoshi continued as the real power in Kyoto, with Yoshiteru nothing more than a rubber stamp.
Timeline
Significant events shaped the period during which Yoshiteru was shōgun:
1550 – Yoshiharu dies in exile; Yoshiteru's "shogunate" in exile begins.
1551 – Sue Harukata rebels against Ōuchi Yoshitaka.
1552 – Yoshiteru returns to Kyoto, actual power being held by Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Matsunaga Hisahide.
1554–1564 – Ōuchi's retainer Mōri Motonari succeeds him and consolidates his power.
1557 – Ōgimachi succeeds.
1558 – Nagayoshi drives out Yoshiteru who, however, is reinstated.
1560 – Oda Nobunaga slays Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1564 – Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen reach a stalemate at Kawanakajima after continuous battles, checking each other's power. (1553–1564).
1565 – Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide invades Kyoto; Yoshiteru commits suicide.
Governance
Surrounded by daimyōs who intended only to use the authority of shogun for their own good, Yoshiteru still managed to reaffirm the shōguns authority by active diplomacy that extended to every part of Japan. By trying to negotiate a peace between such well-known daimyōs as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, Shimazu Takahisa, Ōtomo Yoshishige, Mōri Motonari, and Amago Haruhisa, the shogun's authority was again recognized by various daimyōs. Lacking resources, Yoshiteru nevertheless saw opportunities to assign his kanji "輝" on various samurai such as Mōri Terumoto to become something close to a godfather. Yoshiteru was well respected for his actions and many researchers credit him as being the last effective shōgun to hold the post. Oda Nobunaga and Uesugi Kenshin were among the many daimyōs and samurai who travelled to Kyoto to pay their respects to the shōgun.
End of reign
In 1564, Nagayoshi died of illness and Yoshiteru saw an opportunity to fully reclaim the shōguns authority. However, Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide and the three member council of Miyoshi, the Miyoshi Triumvirs, who wanted to rule just as Nagayoshi had, were willing to go to any lengths to remove Yoshiteru from the power and to have Ashikaga Yoshihide as the puppet shōgun.
In 1565, Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide's son Matsunaga Hisamichi and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu laid siege against a collection of buildings (that would later become Nijō Castle) where Yoshiteru lived. With no help arriving in time from the daimyōs that could have supported him, Yoshiteru and the few troops under him were overrun by Miyoshi.
Jesuit missionary Father Luís Fróis, in his account of the overthrow of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, wrote about the strong sexual love relationship between Yoshiteru and his squire, Odachidono. According to Father Fróis, the shōguns squire, Odachidono, "fought so valiantly and with such intrepid spirit that all the rebels started to shout out that he should not be killed, but that he should be taken alive. Nonetheless, seeing his master die, and believing it a great dishonour to survive him, the youth threw away his sword, and pulling out his dagger, he cut open his throat and then his belly. Finally he killed himself by lying down flat with the dagger in his belly."
Three years passed before his cousin Ashikaga Yoshihide became the fourteenth shōgun.

**Lord(s):**

**Father:** 足利義晴

**Mother:** 慶寿院（近衛尚通の娘）

**Sibling(s):** **義輝**、義昭、周暠、ほか

**Spouse(s):** 正室：大陽院（近衛稙家の娘）
側室：小侍従局（進士晴舎の娘

**Children:** 輝若丸、女子（耀山、宝鏡寺住持）、女子（伝山性賢、宝鏡寺住持）、天誉（足利義高）?、尾池義辰?