Ashikaga Yoshiharu

Ashikaga Yoshiharu
In this Japanese name, the family name is Ashikaga.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu (足利 義晴, April 2, 1511 – May 20, 1550) was the twelfth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held the reins of supreme power from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan.[1] He was the son of the eleventh shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.[2]

Not having any political power and repeatedly being forced out of the capital of Kyoto, Yoshiharu eventually retired in 1546 over a political struggle between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto making his son Ashikaga Yoshiteru the thirteenth shogun.

Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun.

From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shogun in 1542, when the first contact of Japan with the European West took place. A Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan.

Events of Yoshiharu's bakufu

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshiharu was shogun:[6]

Eras of Yoshiharu's bakufu

The years in which Yoshiharu was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.[7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 332.
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 370., p. 370, at Google Books
  3. Titsingh, p. 371., p. 371, at Google Books
  4. Titsingh, p. 373., p. 373, at Google Books
  5. Titsingh, p. 379., p. 379, at Google Books
  6. Ackroyd, p. 331.
  7. Titsingh, pp. 370–378., p. 370, at Google Books

References

Preceded by
Ashikaga Yoshitane
Muromachi Shogun
1521–1546
Succeeded by
Ashikaga Yoshiteru


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