Ashikaga Yoshikatsu

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ashikaga.
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
足利 義勝
Shōgun
In office
1441–1443
MonarchGo-Hanazono
Preceded byAshikaga Yoshinori
Succeeded byAshikaga Yoshimasa
Personal details
Born(1434-03-19)March 19, 1434
DiedAugust 16, 1443(1443-08-16) (aged 9)
Parents
  • Ashikaga Yoshinori (father)
  • Hino Shigeko (mother)

Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (足利 義勝, March 19, 1434 – August 16, 1443) was the seventh shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463).[1] His childhood name was Chiyachamaru (千也茶丸). Hino Tomiko, wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, at first was betrothed to Yoshikatsu.

In 1441, Shōgun Yoshinori is murdered at the age of 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke and shortly thereafter it is determined that his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu will become the new shōgun.[2] Yoshikatsu is confirmed as shōgun the following year.[3] On August 16, 1443, Yoshikatsu died at the age of 9. Fond of horse riding, he was fatally injured in a fall from a horse. He had been shogun for only two years. His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named shōgun.[4] Several years after he became shogun, Yoshinari changed his name to Yoshimasa, and he is better known by that name.[5]

Era of Yoshikatsu's bakufu

The years in which Yoshikatsu was shōgun are more specifically identified by only one era name or nengō.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, p. 340., p. 340, at Google Books
  2. ^ Titsingh, p. 340., p. 340, at Google Books; Screech, Timon (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 234 n.10. Yoshinori (1394–1441) ruled 48 years and Yoshikatsu (1434–1443) ruled 8 years. 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. ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.
  4. ^ Titsingh, p. 342., p. 342, at Google Books
  5. ^ Titsingh, p. 346., p. 346, at Google Books
  6. ^ Titsingh, pp. 331–342., p. 331, at Google Books

References

  • Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
  • Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-0-203-09985-8; OCLC 65177072
  • 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
Preceded by Shōgun:
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
1442–1443 		Succeeded by