Ashikaga no Yoshiyasu

Minamoto no Yoshiyasu, better known as Ashikaga no Yoshiyasu (c. 1125–1157), was a late Heian warrior and founder of the Ashikaga clan. The second son of Minamoto no Yoshikuni, he inherited the Ashikaga manor and took its name.

He served Retired Emperor Toba as a northern guard and became a kebiishi officer. In the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156 he led over a hundred horsemen on the side of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. He died in 1157, little more than thirty years old.