Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shōgun (born 1539)

Ashikaga Yoshihide

Military ruler of Japan in 1568

Ashikaga Yoshihide was the 14th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He became shōgun three years after the death of his cousin, the 13th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.