Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (died 1573)

Asakura Yoshikage

Japanese daimyō (1533–1573)

Asakura Yoshikage was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period (1467–1603) who ruled a part of Echizen Province in present-day Fukui Prefecture. He was a regent of Ashikaga Shogunate. Yoshikage's conflicts with Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) resulted in his death and the destruction of…