Ashikaga Yoshiuji

Ashikaga Yoshiuji (1189–1255) was the third head of the Ashikaga house and a gokenin of the early Kamakura shogunate. A son of Ashikaga Yoshikane by a daughter of Hōjō Tokimasa, he inherited the family leadership through his mother's Hōjō blood.

He supported the Hōjō regents in the Wada conflict of 1213 and the Jōkyū War of 1221, after which he became shugo of Mikawa Province. He took Buddhist vows in 1241 and died in 1255.