- Ashikaga Yoshikazu
was the 5th
shogun of theAshikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during theMuromachi period ofJapan . Yoshikazu was the son of the fourthshogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA329,M1 "Annales des empereurs du japon," p. 329.] ]Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became "Seii Taishogun" at age 18; [Titsingh, p. 329;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] -- "Yoshikasu (b.1407 - named shogun in 1423) = 18yrs. 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."] "] but he would die within two years. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA330,M1 p. 330.] ] According to "Oguri Hangan ichidaiki," Yoshikazu's untimely death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation. [DeBenneville, James S. (1915) [http://books.google.com/books?id=vuuevGb90hAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ashikaga+yoshikazu&lr=&sig=dg8duiv25MK6pv_vAKtGlqqb7SQ&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=2_2#PPA136,M1 "Tales of the Samurai" ("Oguri Hangan ichidaiki"), p. 136.] ]
Significant events shape the period during which Yoshikazu was shogun:Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) "Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.]
* 1423 -- Yoshikazu appointed shogun. [see above] ]
* 1424 -- Go-Kameyama dies. [see above] ]
* 1425 -- Yoashikazu dies; Yoshimochi resumes the responsibilities of office. [see above] ]
* 1428 -- Yoshimochi dies; Shōkō dies; Go-Hanazono ascends throne in second repudiation of agreement. [see above] ]Yoshikazu would be succeeded ultimately by his uncle, the sixth shogun
Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429. [Titsingh, [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA333,M1 p. 333.] ]Era of Yoshikazu's "bakufu"
The years in which Yoshikazu was shogan are encompassed within a single era name or "
nengō ". [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA320,M1 Titsingh, pp. 320] -327.]
* "Ōei " (1394-1428)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)
* 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. [reprinted byDover Publications , Mineola, New York, 2004. 10-ISBN 0-486-43746-9; 13-ISBN 978-0-486-43746-0 (paper)] [http://books.google.com/books?id=vuuevGb90hAC&dq=ashikaga+yoshikazu&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 ... Click for digitized, limited-view copy of this book] .
* 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 ... Click for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French).]ee also
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East Asian age reckoning
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