15th-century Japanese people

The eighth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1436–1490)

emperor of Japan

9th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate

The seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1434-1443)

The sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1394–1441)

daimyo

daimyo

Rennyo (, 1415–1499) was a descendant of Shinran and the 8th head priest of the Hongan-ji branch of Jōdo Shinshū, a major Japanese Buddhist tradition. He is known for his tireless preaching of the Shin teaching and is credited with transforming the Honganji into a major religious organization. According to Dobbins, during Rennyo's tenure, Hongan-ji temple "emerged as the premier institution of the school, and the Shinshū itself burgeoned into one of Japan's largest and most powerful schools of Buddhism." Shinshū Buddhists often refer to him as the restorer of the sect ( in Japanese). He was al

Japanese court noble (1423-1480)

4th Kamakura Kubō of the Ashikaga shogunate

brother of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa

Japanese samurai

Jukei-ni (寿桂尼, 1490 - 11 April 1568) was a Japanese noble lady who acted as the power behind the throne or de facto daimyo of the Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period. She was born in the aristocrat Nakamikado Family of Kyoto. Jukei-ni was the wife of Imagawa Ujichika and mother of Imagawa Ujiteru, Imagawa Yoshimoto and Zukei-ni. She acted as guardian and advisor for Ujichika, Ujiteru, Yoshimoto and her grandson Imagawa Ujizane. Jukei-ni is also known as Onna Daimyo and "Amamidai", once proclaimed that she would "protect Imagawa to her grave".