Ashikaga Yoshimasa was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1443 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. His actions led to the Ōnin War (1467–1477), which triggered the Sengoku period. His reign saw a cultural flourishing in the arts, the development of tea ceremony, Zen Buddhism and wabi-sabi aesthetics.
- Occupation
- samurai, shogun
- Position held
- Chamberlain of Japan, shogun, Sangi, Konoe Daisho
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Born
- January 20, 1435, January 20, 1436
- Died
