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Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394 - 1441) was the 6th Ashikaga shogun who reigned
from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshinori was the
son of the 3rd shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
After the death of the 5th shogun Ashikaga Yoshikazu in 1425, the 4th
shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi would not decide a successor. After Yoshimochi's
death in 1428, Yoshinori became Seii Taishogun the year after by pulling
lots in front of Iwashimizu Shrine in Kyoto to solve the long undecided
matter of succession.
Yoshinori strengthened the power of the shogunate after defeating
Ashikaga Mochiuji in the Eikyo Rebellion of 1438.
Yoshinori was assassinated in 1441 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke in the Kakitsu
Rebellion. He was succeeded by his son, the 7th shogun Ashikaga Yoshikatsu,
in the next year but the power of the shogunate fell into decline.
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