Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo was the seventh shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463).<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref> His childhood name was Chiyachamaru (千也茶丸). Hino Tomiko, wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, at first was betrothed to Yoshikatsu.
In 1441, Shōgun Yoshinori was murdered at the age of 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke. Shortly afterwards, it was determined that his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu, would become the new shōgun.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books; Screech, Timon (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 234 n.10. Yoshinori (1394–1441) ruled 48 years and Yoshikatsu (1434–1443) ruled 8 years. In this period, "children were considered one year old at birth and became two the following New Year's Day; and all people advanced a year that day, not on their actual birthday."</ref> Yoshikatsu is confirmed as shōgun the following year.<ref name="a330">Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.</ref> On August 16, 1443, Yoshikatsu died at the age of 9. Fond of horse riding, he was fatally injured in a fall from a horse. He had been shogun for only two years. His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named shōgun.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref> Several years after he became shogun, Yoshinari changed his name to Yoshimasa, and he is better known by that name.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>
Era of Yoshikatsu's bakufu
The years in which Yoshikatsu was shōgun are more specifically identified by only one era name or nengō.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>
- Kakitsu (1441–1444)
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References
- Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 7574544
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Template:ISBN; OCLC 65177072
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069
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