Hosokawa Yoriyuki

Hosokawa Yoriyuki (1329–1392), son of Yoriharu, was the leading statesman of the early Ashikaga shogunate. He campaigned in Shikoku and in 1362 destroyed his defected cousin Kiyouji at Sanuki's Shiramine Castle. In 1367 Yoshiakira named him kanrei to the young Yoshimitsu.

As kanrei he issued the 1368 half-tax law protecting court and temple estates and set the office to rotate among the Hosokawa, Shiba and Hatakeyama. Ousted in the 1379 Koryaku coup and pardoned in 1389, he died in 1392.