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1. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

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   Early Life and Succession
   Yoshimitsu was born in 1358. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiakira (the second Shōgun), succeeded in establishing the Muromachi Shogunate in Kyoto, but struggled to fully assert authority over the remaining Southern Court loyalists and powerful provincial daimyō. Yoshimitsu ascended to the position of Shōgun at the remarkably young age of ten in 1368, following Yoshiakira's death. His succession was immediately stabilized by the capable regent, Hosokawa Yoriyuki. Early in h…