Ashikaga Yoshikazu

was the 5th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi.

Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Seii Taishogun at age 18; but he would die within two years. According to Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, Yoshikazu's untimely death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation.

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshikazu was shogun:

• 1423 -- Yoshikazu appointed shogun.
• 1424 -- Go-Kameyama dies.
• 1425 -- Yoashikazu dies; Yoshimochi resumes the responsibilities of office.
• 1428 -- Yoshimochi dies; Shōkō dies; Go-Hanazono ascends throne in second repudiation of agreement.

Yoshikazu would be succeeded ultimately by his uncle, the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429.

Era of Yoshikazu's bakufu

The years in which Yoshikazu was shogan are encompassed within a single era name or nengō.

• 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 by Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 2004. 10-ISBN 0-486-43746-9; 13-ISBN 978-0-486-43746-0 (paper)] ... 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. ... Click for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French).

See also

• East Asian age reckoning

Preceded by: Ashikaga Yoshimochi	Muromachi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshikazu 1423–1425	Succeeded by: Ashikaga Yoshinori