- Ashikaga Yoshizumi
was the 11th
shogun of theAshikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during theMuromachi period ofJapan . He was the son ofAshikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shogunAshikaga Yoshinori .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA362,M1 "Annales des empereurs du japon," p. 362.] ] Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka. [Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). "Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron," p. 298.]Adopted by the 8th shogun
Ashikaga Yoshimasa , he was installed byHosokawa Masamoto as "Seii Taishogun". [see above] ] He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shogunAshikaga Yoshitane , who became shogun for a second period of time. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA367,M1 p. 367.] ]His sons will become shoguns.
Ashikaga Yoshiharu will hold nominal powers as the twelfth Muromachi shogun; [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA370,M1 p. 370.] ] andAshikaga Yoshihide will assume nominal powers as the fourteenth shogun. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA386,M1 p. 386.] ]Events of Yoshizumi's "bakufu"
Significant events shape the period during which Yoshizumi was shogun:Ackroyd, p. 331.]
* 1494 -- Hosokawa Masamoto has Yoshizumi appointed shogun. [see above] ]
* 1495 -- Hōjō Sōun captures Odawara. [see above] ]
* 1500 -- Go-Kashiwabara succeeds. [see above] ]Eras of Yoshizumi's "bakufu"
The years in which Yoshizumi was shogan are more specifically identified by more than one era name or "
nengō ". [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA362,M1 "Annales des empereurs du japon," p. 362] -371.]
* "Meiō" (1492-1501)
* "Bunki " (1501-1504)
* "Eishō" (1504-1521)Note
References
* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) "Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron." Brisbane:
University of Queensland Press . 10-ISBN 0-702-21485-X; 13-ISBN 978-0-702-21485-1 (cloth)
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran -- Click for digitizted, full-text copy of this book (in French).]
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