Ashikaga Tadayoshi

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ashikaga.
Ashikaga Tadayoshi depicted in an Edo period print

Ashikaga Tadayoshi (足利 直義, 1306 – March 13, 1352, Kamakura, Japan)[1] was a general of the Northern and Southern Courts period (1337–92) of Japanese history and a close associate of his elder brother Takauji, the first Muromachi shōgun. Son of Ashikaga Sadauji and Uesugi Kiyoko, daughter of Uesugi Yorishige, the same mother as Takauji, he was a pivotal figure of the chaotic transition period between the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.[2] Tadayoshi is today considered a military and administrative genius and the true architect of many of his elder brother's successes.[3] In contemporary chronicles he is rarely called with his name, but is instead called either gosho (御所) or Daikyū-ji-dono (大休寺殿) from the name of his family temple.[4][5] His posthumous name was Kozan Egen (古山慧源).[5]

  1. ^ "Ashikaga Tadayoshi" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 624.
  2. ^ Yasuda (1990:22)
  3. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online accessed on August 11, 2009
  4. ^ Sansom (1977:87)
  5. ^ a b (Kan (1980:123)