Ashikaga Takayoshi

Ashikaga Takayoshi (1297–1317) was a gokenin of the late Kamakura shogunate and the eldest son of Ashikaga Sadauji. At his coming of age he took a character from the regent Hōjō Takatoki, using the Minamoto character yoshi rather than the customary uji.

In 1315, already acting as head, he confirmed a monk's office at Tsurugaoka Hachiman shrine. He died in 1317, aged twenty-one; his younger brother Takauji later won the shogunate.