Ashikaga Shigeuji

Ashikaga Shigeuji (足利成氏) (c. 1438 – 1497)[1] was a Muromachi period warrior and the Kamakura-fu's fifth and last Kantō kubō (Shōgun Deputy).

When in 1439 shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori attacked and invaded Kamakura, its ruler Mochiuji committed seppuku near today's Zuisen-ji to escape capture.

[3] On the occasion, the 11-year-old boy reached manhood and received the character Shige (成) for the adult name he was about to assume from shōgun Yoshimasa himself (who took it from his former name, Yoshinari (義成)) and became Shigeuji.

[6] Shōgun Yoshimasa, not trusting Shigeuji, nominated his ally Uesugi Noritada kanrei with the task of keeping him informed of what happened in Kamakura.

[5] This was the beginning of an era in which the Kantō and Kamakura were devastated by a time of civil wars called the Sengoku period.