Ashikaga Yoshiaki

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Ashikaga Yoshiaki

15th Ashikaga  shōgun

In office

1568–1573

Preceded by Ashikaga Yoshihide

Personal details

Born December 5, 1537

Died October 19, 1597 (aged 59)

In this Japanese name, the family name is Ashikaga.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭, December 5, 1537 – October 19, 1597)[1] was the
15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to
1573.[2] His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth shōgun, and his
brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was the thirteenth shōgun.[3]

Contents

 1Biography
 2Family
 3Events of Yoshiaki's  bakufu
 4Eras of Yoshiaki's  bakufu
 5Notes
  6References

Biography[edit]
The absence of an effective central authority in the capital of Japan had lasted until
the warlord Oda Nobunaga's armies entered Kyoto in 1568,[4] re-establishing
the Muromachi shogunate under the puppet shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to begin
the Azuchi–Momoyama period. Ashikaga Yoshihide, the fourteenth shōgun, was
deposed without ever entering the capital. His childhood name was Chitosemaru (千
歳丸).
Most historians consider 1573 to have been the year in which the Ashikaga
shogunate ended. The power of the Ashikaga was effectively destroyed on August
27, 1573, when Nobunaga drove Yoshiaki out of Kyoto. Yoshiaki became a Buddhist
monk, shaving his head and taking the name Sho-san, which he later changed to
Rei-o In.[5]
Some note that Yoshiaki did not formally relinquish his empty title; and for this
reason, the empty shell of the shogunate could be said to have continued for several
more years. Despite a renewed central authority in Kyoto and Nobunaga's attempt to
unify the country, the struggle for power among warring states continued. Yoshiaki
acted as rallying point for anti-Oda forces. He even raised troops himself, and sent
them to fight against Oda Nobunaga's army during the Ishiyama Hongan-ji War.
[6]
 Even after Oda Nobunaga had died in 1582, the former shogun continued his
efforts to regain power. According to historian Mary Elizabeth Berry, Yoshiaki still
resisted Nobunaga's de facto successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi by 1590.[7]

Family[edit]
 Father: Ashikaga Yoshiharu
 Mother: Keijuin (1514–1565)
 Concubines:
o Osako no Kata
o Kosaki no Tsubone
 Children:
o Ashikaga Yoshihiro (1572–1605)
o Isshi Yoshitaka
o Nagayama Yoshiari (1575–1635)
o Yajima Hideyuki

Events of Yoshiaki's bakufu[edit]
Significant events shape the period during which Yoshiaki was shōgun:

 1568 – Oda Nobunaga sets Yoshiaki up as shōgun.[2]

 1569 – Yoshiaki's Nijō residence is built.[8]
 1570 – Ikkō monks defeat Oda Nobunaga.[2]
 1571 – Oda Nobunaga destroys Enryaku-ji.[2]
 1573 – Takeda Shingen dies; Yoshiaki is deposed.[2]
  1588 – Yoshiaki officially resigns from his post
as shōgun.[9]

Eras of Yoshiaki's bakufu[edit]
The span of years in which Yoshiaki was shōgun are more specifically identified by
more than one era name or nengō.[10]

 Eiroku (1558–1570)
 Genki (1570–1573)
 Tenshō (1573–1592)

Notes[edit]
1. ^ "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.
Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p.
625.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The
Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
3. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon,  pp.
385–389., p. 385, at Google Books
4. ^ Sansom, George (1961).  A History of Japan, 1334–1615.
Stanford University Press. pp.  278–279.  ISBN  0804705259.
5. ^ Titsingh, p. 389., p. 389, at Google Books
6. ^ Berry 1982, p. 63.
7. ^ Berry 1982, p. 99.
8. ^ Lee Butler, "Castles in Medieval Japan: Before Azuchi",
presentation at Association for Asian Studies annual conference,
San Diego, March 23, 2013.
9. ^ National Diet Library: 国史大系
10. ^ Titsingh, pp. 382–405., p. 382, at Google Books

References[edit]
 Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: the
Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland
Press. ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales
des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society,
Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and
Ireland. OCLC 585069
 Berry, Mary Elizabeth (1982). Hideyoshi. Cambridge:
Harvard UP. ISBN 9780674390256.
Shōgun:
Preceded by
Ashikaga Yoshiaki Azuchi–Momoyama period
Ashikaga Yoshihide
1568–1588

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