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was the 7th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the 6th shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori.

★ '''Kakitsu gannen''' or '''Kakitsu 1''', on the 24th day of the 6th month (1441): Shogun Yoshinori is murdered at age 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke; and shortly thereafter, his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu, is proclaimed as the new Shogun.^[1]

★ '''Kakitsu 3''', on the 21 day of the 7th month (1443): Shogun Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10. He very much like riding horses; but he was gravely injured in a fall from a horse. This was the cause of his death. He had been shogun for only three years. His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named shogun.^[2] [Yoshinhari will later change his name to Yoshimasu; and he may be better known by that name.]

Contents

Era of Yoshikatsu's ''Bafuku''

References

Notes

Further reading

Era of Yoshikatsu's ''Bafuku''

The years in which Yoshikatsu was shogan are more specifically identified by only one era name or ''nengō''.

★ ''Kakitsu'' (1441-1444)

References

Notes

1. Titsingh, I. (1834). ''Annales des empereurs du Japon,'' p. 339.
2. Titsingh, P. 342.

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 Yoshinori'

'Muromachi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshikatsu' 1442–1443

Succeeded by: 'Ashikaga Yoshimasa'