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Ashikaga Yoshiaki

Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利義昭, 1537 - 1597) was the 15th, and last Ashikaga shogun in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573.

The Ashikaga shogunate was destroyed in 1573 when Oda Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.

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