ASHIKAGA YOSHIHARU
was the '12th shogun' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1521 to 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of the eleventh shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.
After the tenth shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate in 1521, Yoshitane ran away to Awaji Island and Yoshiharu was installed as a puppet shogun. 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 when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan.
The years in which Yoshiharu was shogan are more specifically identified by more than one era name or ''nengÅ''.
★ ''Daiei'' (1521-1528)
★ ''KyÅroku'' (1528-1532)
★ ''Tenbun'' (1532-1555)
★ Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi GahÅ, 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.
After the tenth shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate in 1521, Yoshitane ran away to Awaji Island and Yoshiharu was installed as a puppet shogun. 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 when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan.
| Contents |
| Eras of Yoshiharu's ''bakufu'' |
| References |
| Notes |
| Further reading |
Eras of Yoshiharu's ''bakufu''
The years in which Yoshiharu was shogan are more specifically identified by more than one era name or ''nengÅ''.
★ ''Daiei'' (1521-1528)
★ ''KyÅroku'' (1528-1532)
★ ''Tenbun'' (1532-1555)
References
Notes
Further reading
★ Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi GahÅ, 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.
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