Ashikaga Yoriuji

Ashikaga Yoriuji (1240–1262) was the fifth head of the Ashikaga house and a gokenin of the mid-Kamakura shogunate. A son of Ashikaga Yasuuji by a daughter of Hōjō Tokiuji of the Tokusō line, he was made heir over his elder brothers.

First named Toshiuji, in 1256 he was renamed Yoriuji with a character from the regent Hōjō Tokiyori. He died in 1262, aged twenty-three, and his young son Ietoki succeeded him.