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Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536 - 65) was the 13th Ashikaga shogun who
reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period. He was the
eldest son of the 12th shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
After his father Yoshiharu retired in 1546 over a politic struggle
between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto, Yoshiteru became Seii
Taishogun, albeit a puppet shogun just like his father. Resisting the
influence of Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Matsunaga Hisahide on the shogunate, and
seeking to restore the power of the shogun, Yoshiteru was assassinated by
Matsunaga Hisahide in 1565.
Three years passed before his cousin Ashikaga Yoshihide became the 14th
shogun.
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