Ashikaga Yoshikazu

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Ashikaga.
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 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

nengō.[7]

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

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Ashikaga Yoshikazu
1423–1425 		Succeeded by
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