- Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
was the 7th
shogun of theAshikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during theMuromachi period ofJapan . Yoshikatsu was the son of the 6thshogun Ashikaga Yoshinori .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA340,M1 "Annales des empereurs du Japon," p. 340.] ]Significant events shape the period during which Yoshikatsu was shogun:Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) "Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p.330.]
* "Kakitsu gannen" or "Kakitsu 1", on the 24th day of the 6th month (1441): Shogun Yoshinori is murdered at age 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke; and shortly thereafter, it is determined that his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu, will become the new Shogun. [Titsingh, p. 340; Screech, Timon. (2006). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BLzQA7cpr7wC&printsec=references&dq=timon+screech&source=gbs_toc_s&cad=1#PRA2-PA234,M1 "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822," p. 234 n.10] -- "Yoshinori (b.1394 - d.1441) = 48yrs. and Yoshikatsu (b.1434 - d.1443) = 8yrs. In this period, [http://books.google.com/books?id=BLzQA7cpr7wC&printsec=references&dq=timon+screech&source=gbs_toc_s&cad=1#PRA2-PA234,M1 "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."] "]
* 1442 -- Yoshikatsu is confirmed as shogun. [see above] ]
* "Kakitsu 3", on the 21 day of the 7th month (1443): Shogun Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10. Fond of horseriding, he was gravely injured in a fall from a horse. This was the cause of his death. He had been shogun for only three years. His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named shogun. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA342,M1 p. 342.] ] Several years after he becomes shogun, Yoshinari will change his name to Yoshimasu; and he is better known by that name. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA346,M1 p. 346.] ]Era of Yoshikatsu's "Bakufu"
The years in which Yoshikatsu was shogun are more specifically identified by only one era name or "
nengō ". [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA331,M1 Titsingh, pp. 331] -342.]
* "Kakitsu " (1441-1444)Notes
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, ed. (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 --"Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006." Click here to read the original text in French.]
* Screech, Timon. (2006). [http://books.google.com/books?id=BLzQA7cpr7wC&dq=timon+screech&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822."] London:RoutledgeCurzon . ISBN 0-700-71720-Xee also
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East Asian age reckoning
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