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Ashikaga Yoshikazu

Ashikaga Yoshikazu 足利 義量
Shōgun
In office 1423–1425
Monarch	Shōkō
Preceded by	Ashikaga Yoshimochi
Succeeded by	Ashikaga Yoshinori
Personal details
Born	(1407-08-27)August 27, 1407
Died	March 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 of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi periodofJapan. 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, 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[edit]

The years in which Yoshikazu was shōgun are encompassed within a single era nameornengō.^[7]

• Ōei (1394–1428)

See also[edit]

• East Asian age reckoning

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

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• De Benneville, James S. (1915) Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, being the story of the lives, the adventures, and the misadventures of the Hangwan-dai Kojirō Sukeshige and Terute-hime, his wife.. Yokohama: The Fukuin Printing Co. OCLC 45027056
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069