# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/motouji-ashikaga
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:06:10.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/motouji-ashikaga"
name: "Motouji Ashikaga"
slug: "motouji-ashikaga"
description: "Ashikaga Motouji  was a Japanese samurai lord of the Nanboku-chō period. The fourth son of shogun Ashikaga Takauji, he was the first of a dynasty of five Kantō kubō, Kamakura-based representatives in the vital Kamakura-fu of Kyoto's Ashikaga regime. Meant to stabilize a volatile situation in the Kantō, a region where many warrior clans wanted the return of the shogunate from Kyoto back to Kamakura, the dynasty he started almost immediately developed the ambition to usurp the shogunate, becoming a serious problem for the central government. Motouji was the only kubō who always remained loyal to the Kyoto government. During the Kannō disturbance, a historical episode with serious repercussions on his life, he tried to reconcile his father with his uncle Ashikaga Tadayoshi and, after his father's demise, he collaborated with his elder brother, shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira, to stabilize the shogunate. He died young during an epidemic."
tagline: "1st Kamakura Kubō of the Ashikaga shogunate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ashikaga_Motouji.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1340-04-02"
deathDate: "1367-05-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.1
  momentum:             3.268093856245064
  historical:           6.909085333333334
  currentAttention:     4.786036036036037
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B6%B3%E5%88%A9%E5%9F%BA%E6%B0%8F"
    title: "足利基氏"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Motouji"
    title: "Ashikaga Motouji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B4%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "آشیکاگا موتوئوجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Motouji"
    title: "Ashikaga Motouji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Motouji"
    title: "Ashikaga Motouji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B6%B3%E5%88%A9%E5%9F%BA%E6%B0%8F"
    title: "足利基氏"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D2%91%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96"
    title: "Асікаґа Мотоудзі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4306921"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump