Ashikaga Yoshihisa

{{Short description|Military ruler of Japan from 1465 to 1489}}

{{family name hatnote|Ashikaga|lang=Japanese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ashikaga Yoshihisa
{{lang|ja|足利 義尚}}

| image = Ashikaga Yoshihisa Tenryū-ji.jpg

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| office = Shōgun

| term_start = 1474

| term_end = 1489

| predecessor = Ashikaga Yoshimasa

| successor = Ashikaga Yoshiki

| spouse = daughter of Hino Katsumitsu

| children =

| father = Ashikaga Yoshimasa

| mother = Hino Tomiko

| monarch = Go-Tsuchimikado

| birth_date = {{birth date|1465|12|11}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1489|4|26|1465|12|11}}

| death_place =

| signature = Ashikaga Yoshihisa kao.jpg

}}

{{nihongo|Ashikaga Yoshihisa|足利 義尚||extra=December 11, 1465 – April 26, 1489}} was the 9th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 331. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa with his wife Hino Tomiko.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). {{Google books|18oNAAAAIAAJ|Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 357.|page=357}}

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Since the almost 30-year-old shōgun Yoshimasa had no heir by 1464, he adopted his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshimi to succeed him. However, Yoshihisa was born in the next year starting a struggle for succession between brothers that erupted into the Ōnin War starting in 1467,{{Cite book |last=Sansom |first=George |title=A History of Japan, 1334–1615 |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1961 |isbn=978-0-8047-0525-7 |pages=217–229}} beginning the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In the middle of hostilities, Yoshimasa retired in 1473, relinquishing the position of Sei-i Taishōgun to Yoshihisa.Ackroyd, p. 298; n.b., Shōgun Yoshimasa was succeeded by shōgun Yoshihisa (Yoshimasa's natural son), then by shōgun Yoshitane (Yoshimasa's first adopted son), and then by shōgun Yoshizumi (Yoshimasa's second adopted son)