Ashikaga Yoshikazu

Drawing of Ashikaga Yoshikazu
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Ashikaga".

Ashikaga Yoshikazu (足利 義量, August 27, 1407 – March 17, 1425) was the 5th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi.[1]

Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Seii Taishogun 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]

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshikazu was shogun:[5]

Yoshimochi was succeeded by his brother, the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori, in 1429.[6]

Era of Yoshikazu's bakufu

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

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 shogun 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. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 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

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See also

Preceded by
Ashikaga Yoshimochi
Muromachi Shogun
1423–1425
Succeeded by
Ashikaga Yoshinori