Ashikaga Yoshikane

Ashikaga Yoshikane (1154–1199) was the second head of the Ashikaga clan and a close vassal of Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura shogunate. When Yoritomo rose in Izu in 1180, Yoshikane joined him in Kamakura, and in 1181 he married a younger sister of Hōjō Masako, becoming Yoritomo's brother-in-law.

He fought in the campaigns against the Taira and the northern Fujiwara, and in 1190 suppressed a revolt in Dewa. He took Buddhist vows at Tōdai-ji in 1195 and died at the family's Kabasaki temple in 1199.