Ashikaga Yoshiaki

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**Ashikaga Yoshiaki**  (足利 (あしかが)義昭 (よしあき), *****Ashikaga Yoshiaki*****? Ashikaga Yoshiaki) is a member of the Ashikaga Clan, serving under Ashikaga Yoshiteru. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 4, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 5, Sengoku Hime 6 and the upcoming Shin § Sengoku Hime.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 4:** A younger sister of Yoshiteru Ashikaga, a girl who was entrusted to a temple shortly after she was born to avoid a conflict over the shogunate.
However, there was an assassination riot of her Yoshiteru, and she was caught up in her riot by her faction who planned to make her a general, and she was saved by Hosokawa parent and child and Mitsuhide while she was ephemeral.
Her life is tossed by her own will, closing her heart.

しかし義輝暗殺騒動があり、彼女を将軍にしようと画策した一派により騒動に巻き込まれ、世を儚んでいるところを細川親子と光秀に救われた。
自分の意志を余所に人生を翻弄され、心を閉ざしている。
【デザイナー：ぽ～しょん】　【演者：氷室百合】

**Sengoku Hime 5:** A younger sister of Yoshiteru Ashikaga, a girl who was entrusted to a temple shortly after she was born to avoid a conflict over the shogunate.
However, there was an assassination riot of her Yoshiteru, and she was caught up in her riot by her faction who planned to make her a general, and she was saved by Hosokawa parent and child and Mitsuhide while she was ephemeral.

しかし義輝暗殺騒動があり、彼女を将軍にしようと画策した一派により騒動に巻き込まれ、世を儚んでいるところを細川親子と光秀に救われた。
デザイナー：ぽ～しょんＣＶ：真宮ゆず

**Sengoku Hime 6:** Yoshiteru's younger brother. Realizing that he has no talent for martial arts compared to his older sister, he turns his efforts toward learning and acquires a talent different from Yoshiki. He is willing to do his best to see what he should do, and for that reason he is willing to reach out for dirty work. He is good at persuading people.

**Shin § Sengoku Hime:** A girl who became a shogun after Yoshiteru's death as a younger sister of Yoshiteru, the former shogun.
From an early age, she practiced at Kofukuji Temple according to the customs of the Shogunate.
However, she has not received any education as a general, and she is a disappointing child who has been disappointed by the fact that she was raised at the festival.
She seems to stay high and she is actually quite friendly and innocent. She is therefore easy to be fooled by her.
Her education is well-educated and not foolish, so depending on how she treats her, it may be garbled ...?

幼い頃から将軍家の慣習に則って興福寺にて修行の日々を送っていた。
しかし将軍としての教育は一切受けておらず、祭り上げられたことで浮かれて羽目が外れてしまっている残念な子。
お高くとまっているようで実はかなり気さくで純真。そのため騙されやすくもある。
教養はあり、暗愚ではないため扱い方次第では化ける可能性も･･･?
原画: きびぃもか 演者: 御苑生メイ

## Historial Infomation

Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭, December 5, 1537 – October 19, 1597) was the 15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, was the twelfth shōgun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, was the thirteenth shōgun.

Yoshiaki entered the priesthood from an early age at the Tsurugaoka-Hachiman Shrine, adopting the name Kōnen, having the meaning of vacant or void. Owing to a confrontation between his father and older brother, Takamoto, in the Eishō Conflict, Kōnen moved to Shimotsuke Province and changed his name to Sōsai. After returning to secular life, he became known as Ashikaga Yoshiaki. With the support of Mariyatsu Nobuyasu, the lord of Mariyatsu Castle in Kazusa Province, Yoshiaki attacked Oyumi Castle in Shimōsa Province, defeating Hara Tanetaka, Hara Toratane, and Takagi Taneyoshi and capturing the castle. Yoshiaki then adopted the title of Oyumi kubō and opposed the Koga kubō. Following the death of Uesugi Tomoyoshi, lord of the Ōgigayatsu-Uesugi clan, Yoshiaki moved his base from Takayanagi to Oyumi in the summer of 1518.
Thereafter, he adopted a policy of opposition to Mariyatsu Nobuyasu. After the death of Nobuyasu, he intervened in an internal dispute within the Mariyatsu clan, banished Mariyatsu Nobutaka, and backed Mariyatsu Nobumasa as the new lord. Meanwhile, Nobutaka joined forces with Takamoto, his son (Ashikaga Haruuji), and the Gohōjo clan from Sagami Province to oppose Yoshiaki. In 1538, Yoshiaki raised an army, deployed to Kōnodai in Shimōsa Province, and engaged in a showdown with Hōjō Ujitsuna, a sengoku daimyō and the second head of the Gohōjō clan, in the First Battle of Kōnodai. Yoshiaki excelled in military strategy, serving himself as leader of the vanguard. He initially seized the advantage against the combined forces of Haruuji and Ujitsuna. However, forces under the command of Satomi Yoshitaka lacked the spirit to fight and gradually lost their gains. Yoshiaki’s younger brother, Ashikaga Motoyori, and his eldest son, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, died in battle. Upon hearing this news, Yoshiaki attacked headlong into Ujitsuna’s forces, dying in the counterattack.
Yoshiaki’s death led to the end of the role of the Oyumi kubō, but his second son, Ashikaga Yorizumi, continued to survive, first under the protection of Satomi Yoshitaka and Yoshihiro, then later under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

**Father:** Ashikaga Masauji 足利義晴

**Mother:** 慶寿院（近衛尚通の娘）

**Sibling(s):** Takamoto 義輝, **Yoshiaki**, Motoyori 周暠, Other

**Spouse(s):** 正室：なし 側室：さこの方（赤松政秀娘、織田信長養女）、小宰相局（大河内氏）、一対局、春日局、大蔵卿局、小少将局（いずれも出自不詳）

**Children:** Yoshizumi 義尋, Yorizumi 一色義喬, Shōgakuni 永山義在, daughter (wife of Uesugi Norihiro), Kyokuzan-ni 矢島秀行

## Trivia

* He/She is one of the few character to have a gender change introduced in the same game entry.