ASHIKAGA YOSHIAKIRA

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.
He spent his childhood in Kamakura as a hostage of the Hōjō clan. His father Takauji joined forces with the banished Emperor Go-Daigo, and when the shogunate was finally destroyed, and Go-Daigo started the Kemmu Restoration, Yoshiakira was dispatched to Kamakura.
An internal disturbance of the government caused Yoshiakira to be called back to Kyoto. Yoshiakira succeeded his father Takauji as ''Seii Taishogun'' after his death in 1358.
A year after his death, he was succeeded by his son Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the third shogun in 1368.
His tomb is in Tojiin, Kyoto.

Contents

Eras of Yoshiakira's ''bakufu''

References

Notes

Further reading

Eras of Yoshiakira's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshiakira was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or ''nengō''.
:'''Nanboku-chō'' southern court'

★ Eras as reckoned by legitimate Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)

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★ ''Shōhei'' {1346-1370)
:'''Nanboku-chō'' northern Court'

★ Eras as reckoned by pretender Court (as determined by Meiji rescript)

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★ ''Enbun'' (1356-1361)

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★ ''Kōan'' (1361-1362)

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★ ''Jōji'' (1362-1368)

References

Notes

Further reading

★ 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.--''Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006.'' Click here to read the original text in French.

Preceded by: 'Ashikaga Takauji'

'Muromachi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshiakira' 1358–1367

Succeeded by: 'Ashikaga Yoshimitsu'