Ashikaga Yoshikazu

Fifth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1407–1425)
Ashikaga Yoshikazu
足利 義量
Shōgun
In office
1423–1425
MonarchShōkō
Preceded byAshikaga Yoshimochi
Succeeded byAshikaga Yoshinori
Personal details
Born(1407-08-27)August 27, 1407
DiedMarch 17, 1425(1425-03-17) (aged 17)
Parents
  • Ashikaga Yoshimochi (father)
  • Hino Eishi (mother)

Ashikaga Yoshikazu (足利 義量, August 27, 1407 – March 17, 1425) was the fifth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimochi.[1]

Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Sei-i Taishōgun at age 18,[2] but he would die within two years.[3] According to Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, Yoshikazu's death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation.[4] His buddhist name was Chōtoku-in (長得院).

In 1423, was Yoshikazu appointed shōgun. A year later the Emperor Go-Kameyama dies. Yoshikazu would rule for a brief reign as he dies in 1425 and is succeeded by his father Yoshimochi that same year. When his father died in 1428, Go-Hanazono ascends the throne in second repudiation of agreement.[5] The sixth official shōgun became Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429.[6]

Era of Yoshikazu's bakufu

The years in which Yoshikazu was shōgun are encompassed within a single era name or nengō.[7]

  • Ōei (1394–1428)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 329., p. 329, at Google Books
  2. ^ Titsingh, p. 329., p. 329, at Google Books; Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 234 n.10; n.b., Yoshikasu (b. 1407 – named shōgun in 1423) = 18yrs. In this period, "children were considered one year old at birth and became two the following New Year's Day; and all people advanced a year that day, not on their actual birthday."]
  3. ^ Titsingh, p. 330., p. 330, at Google Books
  4. ^ DeBenneville, James S. (1915) ''Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, p. 136., p. 136, at Google Books
  5. ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.
  6. ^ Titsingh, p. 333., p. 333, at Google Books
  7. ^ Titsingh, pp. 320–327., p. 320, at Google Books

References

  • Ackroyd, Joyce I. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
  • De Benneville, James S. (1915) Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, being the story of the lives, the adventures, and the misadventures of the Hangwan-dai Kojirō Sukeshige and Terute-hime, his wife.. Yokohama: The Fukuin Printing Co. OCLC 45027056
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069
Preceded by Shōgun:
Ashikaga Yoshikazu

1423–1425
Succeeded by
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Ashikaga family tree
adoption

(1305-1358)
Takauji(1)
r. 1338-1358

(1330-1368)
Yoshiakira(2)
r. 1358-1367

(1358-1408)
Yoshimitsu(3)
r. 1367-1395

(1386-1428)
Yoshimochi(4)
r. 1395-1423

(1394-1441)
Yoshinori(6)
r. 1429-1441

(1407-1425)
Yoshikazu(5)
r. 1423-1425

(1433-1443)
Yoshikatsu(7)
r. 1442-1443
(1435-1491)
Masatomo

(1436-1490)
Yoshimasa(8)
r. 1449-1474
(1439-1491)
Yoshimi

(1481-1511)
Yoshizumi(11)
r. 1494-1508

(1465-1489)
Yoshihisa(9)
r. 1474-1489

(1466-1523)
Yoshitane(10)
r. 1490-1493,
1508-1521
(1509-1573)
Yoshitsuna
1509-1573

(1510-1550)
Yoshiharu(12)
r. 1521-1545

(1538-1568)
Yoshihide(14)
r. 1568

(1535-1565)
Yoshiteru(13)
r. 1545-1565

(1537-1597)
Yoshiaki(15)
r. 1568-1573
References:
  • 新井 (Arai), 白石 (Hakuseki) (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. University of Queensland Press. pp. 298, 385. ISBN 978-0-7022-1485-1.
  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric; Roth, Käthe (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Oriental Translation Fund. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
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Chronology, dates and paternity of the Ashikaga shōguns
Name
Lived
Reigned
Son of
1st Takauji 1305–1358 1338–1358 Sadauji
2nd Yoshiakira 1330–1368 1358–1367 Takauji
3rd Yoshimitsu 1358–1408 1367–1395 Yoshiakira
4th Yoshimochi 1386–1428 1395–1423 Yoshimitsu
5th Yoshikazu 1407–1425 1423–1425 Yoshimochi
6th Yoshinori 1394–1441 1428–1441 Yoshimitsu
7th Yoshikatsu 1433–1443 1442–1443 Yoshinori
8th Yoshimasa 1435–1490 1449–1474 Yoshinori
Name
Lived
Reigned
Son of
  9th Yoshihisa 1465–1489 1474–1489 Yoshimasa
10th Yoshitane 1465–1522
1490–1493
1508–1521
Yoshimi
11th Yoshizumi 1478–1513 1493–1508 Masatomo
12th Yoshiharu 1510–1550 1521–1545 Yoshizumi
13th Yoshiteru 1535–1565 1545–1565 Yoshiharu
14th Yosihide 1538–1568 1564–1568 Yoshitsuna
15th Yoshiaki 1537–1597 1568–1588 Yoshiharu
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