Ashikaga Yoshizumi

was the 11th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shogun Ashikaga 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 by Hosokawa Masamoto as "Seii Taishogun". [see above] ] He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shogun Ashikaga 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.] ] and Ashikaga 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)

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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).]