Ashikaga Yoshiakira

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Ashikaga Yoshiakira
足利 義詮
Shōgun
In office
1358–1367
MonarchGo-Murakami
Preceded byAshikaga Takauji
Succeeded byAshikaga Yoshimitsu
Personal details
BornJuly 4, 1330
DiedDecember 28, 1367(1367-12-28) (aged 37)
SpouseShibukawa Kōshi
Children
Parents
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Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利 義詮, July 4, 1330 – December 28, 1367) was the second

Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji. His mother was Akahashi Tōshi (赤橋登子), also known as Hōjō Nariko.[1]

His childhood name was Senjuō (千寿王). He spent his childhood in

Kamakura as a hostage of the Hōjō clan. His father Takauji joined forces with the banished Emperor Go-Daigo. Go-Daigo revolted against the Kamakura shogunate in the Kenmu Restoration.[2] Yoshiakira assisted Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338) in his attack on the Kamakura shogunate.[3] During the Nanboku-cho period
, several Loyalist occupations of Kyoto in the 1350s were successfully retaken by Yoshiakira.

Notable events

In 1349, an internal disturbance of the government caused Yoshiakira to be called back to

Sei-i Taishōgun after his death in 1358.[5]

Takauji died in 1358, his son Yoshiakira is then appointed shōgun, which leads to dissention and defections in shogunate.[6] In 1362, Hosokawa Kiyouji and Kusunoki Masanori attack Kyoto, Yoshiakira flees, but regains the capital in twenty days.[6][4]: 107–108  Later, Emperor Go-Daigo's son, Prince Kaneyoshi (also known as Kanenaga, leader of Ashikaga clan's archrival court) gains control of Kyushu in 1365.[6] Yoshiakira falls ill in 1367 and cedes his position to his son.[7]

Some months after his death he was succeeded by his son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who became the third shōgun in 1368. Yoshiakira was posthumously named 宝篋院 (Hōkyōin), and his grave is at Tōji-in, Kyoto,[8] at the same site as his father's grave.[1]

Family

Parents:

  • Father: Ashikaga Takauji (足利 尊氏, August 18, 1305 – June 7, 1358)
  • Mother: Akahashi Toshi (赤橋 登子; 1306– 4 May 1365)

Consort and issue:

  • Wife: Shibukawa Koshi (澀川幸子; 1332–1392)
    • Son: Senju-ō (千寿王)
  • Concubine: Ki no Yoshiko (纪良子; 1336–1413)
    • Son: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (足利 義満, September 25, 1358 – May 31, 1408)
    • Son: Ashikaga Mitsukaira (足利滿詮; 6 July 1364 – 29 June 1418)
    • Son: Seiso (清祖)

Eras of Yoshiakira's bakufu

The years in which Yoshiakira was shōgun are more specifically identified by more than one

nengō.[9]

Nanboku-chō southern court

Nanboku-chō northern Court

  • Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript):
    • Enbun (1356–1361)
    • Kōan
       (1361–1362)
    • Jōji (1362–1368)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "足利 義詮" [Ashikaga Yoshiakira]. Nihon Jinmei Daijiten (日本人名大辞典) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 290–294., p. 290, at Google Books
  3. OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original
    on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0804705259
    .
  5. ^ Titsingh, p. 304., p. 304, at Google Books
  6. ^ a b c Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 329.
  7. ^ Titsingh, p. 307., p. 307, at Google Books
  8. ^ Titsingh,p. 308., p. 308, at Google Books
  9. ^ Titsingh, pp. 304–308., p. 304, at Google Books

Sources

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Shōgun
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Ashikaga Yoshiakira
1358–1367 		Succeeded by
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