Ashikaga Yoshiakira

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Ashikaga Yoshiakira
足利 義詮
Ashikaga Yoshiakira.jpg
2nd Ashikaga shogun
In office
1358–1367
Preceded by Shogun:
Ashikaga Takauji
Succeeded by Shogun:
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
Personal details
Born (1330-07-04)July 4, 1330
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Spouse(s) Shibukawa Kōshi
Relations Father:
Ashikaga Takauji
Mother:
Akahashi Tōshi
Children Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
Ashikaga Mitsuakira
Others

Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利 義詮?, July 4, 1330 – December 28, 1367) was the 2nd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshiakira was the son of the founder and first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji. His mother was and Akahashi Tōshi, also known as and Hōjō Tōshi.[1]

He spent his childhood in Kamakura as a hostage of the Hōjō clan. His father Takauji joined forces with the banished Emperor Go-Daigo. The Kamakura shogunate was overthrown, and Go-Daigo began the process which came to be known as the Kemmu Restoration.[2]

Yoshiakira assisted Nitta Yoshisada (1301 – 1338) in his attack on the Kamakura shogunate.[3]

In 1349, an internal disturbance of the government caused Yoshiakira to be called back to Kyoto, where he found himself named as Takauji's heir.[4] Yoshiakira succeeded his father Takauji as Seii Taishogun after his death in 1358.[5]

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshiakira was shogun:

Some months after his death he was succeeded by his son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who became the third shogun in 1368. Yoshiakira was posthumously named 宝篋院 (Hōkyōin?), and his grave is at Tōji-in, Kyoto,[8] at the same site as his father's grave.[1]

Eras of Yoshiakira's bakufu

The years in which Yoshiakira was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.[9]

Nanboku-chō southern court

  • Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript):

Nanboku-chō northern Court

  • Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript):

Notes

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  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 290-294., p. 290, at Google Books
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  4. Sansom, George. (1961). A History of Japan, 1334–1615, p. 81., p. 81, at Google Books
  5. Titsingh, p. 304., p. 304, at Google Books
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 329.
  7. Titsingh, p. 307., p. 307, at Google Books
  8. Titsingh,p. 308., p. 308, at Google Books
  9. Titsingh, pp. 304-308., p. 304, at Google Books

References

Preceded by Muromachi Shogun
1358–1367
Succeeded by
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu