足利義輝

Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the thirteenth Ashikaga shogun, earned the epithet 'Sword-Saint Shogun' as the only shogun to have studied under both of the great swordsmen of his era: Tsukahara Bokuden and Kamiizumi Nobutsuna. Ruling at a time when the Muromachi shogunate's authority had collapsed before the power of the Sengoku daimyō, Yoshiteru devoted himself to sword practice and built one of the greatest sword collections of his age. His prized possession Mikazuki Munechika — a masterwork by Sanjō Munechika and one of the Five Great Swords of Japan — later passed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and then Tokugawa Ieyasu. When the Miyoshi and Matsunaga forces stormed his palace in 1565, Yoshiteru is said to have lined up multiple tachi in the floor and fought his way through them one by one until he was overwhelmed — a death that perfectly embodied his legend.