Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shōgun (born 1394)

Ashikaga Yoshinori

Military ruler of Japan from 1429 to 1441

Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. His childhood name was Harutora (春寅). In 1433, he initiated the…