Ashikaga Tadafuyu

Ashikaga Tadafuyu (1327–c. 1400) was an illegitimate son of Shogun Ashikaga Takauji. Unacknowledged by his father and raised as a novice at the Tōshōji in Kamakura, he was adopted around 1345 by Takauji's brother Tadayoshi.

He won his first campaign against Southern Court forces in 1348 and became Nagato tandai by 1349. During the Kannō Disturbance he turned against Takauji and was briefly named Kyushu tandai in 1351.

His faction collapsed after Takauji's death in 1358. His last known letter dates to 1366, and later genealogies place his death in 1400.