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Ashikaga Haruuji

1508–1560 · 16th century

Ashikaga Haruuji was the fourth Koga kubo, head of the eastern branch of the Ashikaga in the Kantō region of Japan. At first allied with the Later Hōjō, who helped him destroy his uncle Yoshiaki in 1538, he married a daughter of Hōjō Ujitsuna. He later joined the Uesugi against the Hōjō and shared their defeat at Kawagoe in 1546, after which the Hōjō controlled the Koga kubo.

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