Ashikaga Yoshikazu 足利 義量 | |
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| Shōgun | |
| In office 1423–1425 | |
| Monarch | Shōkō |
| Preceded by | Ashikaga Yoshimochi |
| Succeeded by | Ashikaga Yoshinori |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 27, 1407 |
| Died | March 17, 1425 (aged 17) |
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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 medieval 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, Yoshikazu was appointed as 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]
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 329., p. 329, at Google Books
- ^ 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."]
- ^ Titsingh, p. 330., p. 330, at Google Books
- ^ DeBenneville, James S. (1915) ''Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, p. 136., p. 136, at Google Books
- ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 333., p. 333, at Google Books