* Although he is not one of the successive Ashikaga Shogun, he is closely related to the Ashikaga Shogun family because he appointed the Ashikaga family including the Kira clan and Imagawa clan to the Tokugawa Shogunate as Koke (a noble ranking below a Daimyo), as well as granting the descendants of Takauji ASHIKAGA's third son and Muromachi Shogunate first Kamakura kubo (Kamakura governor-general) Motouji ASHIKAGA the 5,000-koku Kizuregawa Domain in Shimotsuke Province and appointing them 100,000-koku Daimyo (Kizuregawa family), despite the fact that the small stipend was far lower than even 10,000-koku.
※足利歴代将軍ではないが、吉良氏・今川氏をはじめとする足利氏一族を高家として江戸幕府に取り立てた他、足利尊氏の三男である室町幕府初代鎌倉公方・足利基氏の子孫に下野国・喜連川藩5000石を与え、1万石に満たない少禄ながら10万石格の大名（喜連川家）に取り立てるなど、足利将軍家縁の者を重んじた。