Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利義満, September 25, 1358 – May 31, 1408) was the 3rd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who ruled from 1368 to 1394 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimitsu was the son of the second shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira.

In the year after the death of his father Yoshiakira in 1367, Yoshimitsu became Seii Taishogun at age 11.

"The principal beneficiary of these achievements [the solid political and economic standing of the Muromachi Bakufu] was the adult Yoshimitsu, who assumed power in his own right upon the forced resignation of Hosokawa Yoriyuki in 1379" - The Ōnin War - H. Paul Varley: Page 58. "The adult Yoshimitsu dominated Bakufu politics for nearly 30 years, from 1379 until his death in 1408." - The Ōnin War - H. Paul Varley: Page 61

Timeline

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshimitsu was shogun:

1368 – Yoshimitsu appointed shogun;Chōkei ascends southern throne.

1369 – Kusunoki Masanori defects to Ashikaga.

1370 – Imagawa Sadayo sent to subdue Kyushu.

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Yoshimitsu

Yoshimitsu (吉光) is a name used by several player characters in the Tekken and Soul series of fighting games by Namco. He is one of the four characters (the others being Heihachi Mishima, Paul Phoenix, and Nina Williams) to have appeared in all the main Tekken installments, with the noticeable exception of Tekken Revolution (widely considered to be a non-canon entry storywise, like the Tekken Tag Tournament series). Although details of the character's biographies have varied in different games and other media, each Yoshimitsu is consistently portrayed as the leader of the honorable Manji Clan, a practitioner of ninjutsu, and a master swordsman with a mechanical prosthetic arm. The characters have been well received by both fans of the series and critics alike.