Ashikaga Yoshimochi

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo was the fourth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1394 to 1423 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimochi was the son of the third shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the elder brother of the sixth third shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshinori.<ref name="titsingh321">Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref>

Succession and rule

In 1394, Yoshimitsu gave up his shogunal title in favor of his young son, and Yoshimochi was formally confirmed in his office as Sei-i Taishōgun.<ref name="titsingh321"/> Despite any appearance of retirement, the old shōgun didn't abandon any of his powers, and Yoshimitsu continued to maintain authority over the shogunate until his death. Yoshimochi exercised unfettered power as shōgun only after his father died in 1408.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

In 1398, during the sixth year of the reign of King Taejo of Joseon, a diplomatic mission was sent to Japan.<ref>Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin. (1997). Template:Google books</ref> Pak Ton-ji and his retinue arrived in Kyoto in 1398 (Ōei 5, 8th month). Shogun Yoshimochi presented the envoy with a formal diplomatic letter; and presents were given for the envoy to convey to the Joseon court.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

In 1408, Yoshimochi came into his own as a shōgun. The next year Ashikaga Mochiuji became Kantō kubō.<ref name="ackroyd330">Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.</ref> In 1411, Yoshimochi broke off relations with Ming China.<ref name="sansom142">Sansom, George. (1961). Template:Google books</ref> Emperor Go-Komatsu abdicated in 1413, therefore Emperor Shōkō ascended to the throne in repudiation of an agreement. This resulted in renewed hostility between the shogunate and supporters of the Southern Court.<ref name="ackroyd330" /> Dissension erupted between Ashikaga Mochiuji, the Kantō Kubō in Kamakura, and Uesugi Zenshū (the Kantō Kanrei) in 1415,<ref name="sansom142" /> and the Uesugi clan rebelled the following year,<ref name="ackroyd330" /> but it was quelled by Mochiuji by 1417.<ref name="sansom142" />

A Korean attack on Tsushima (Ōei Invasion) happened in 1419, and a serious famine with great loss of life occurred the next year.<ref name="sansom142" /> In 1422, there was a resurgence in supporters of the Southern Court. Yoshimochi ceded authority to his son in 1423,<ref name="ackroyd330" /> but he had to retake responsibilities of the office of Shōgun when his son died in 1425.<ref name="ackroyd3302">Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.</ref> Yoshimochi followed his father's example by formally ceding his powers to a young son, who became the fifth Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshikazu, who was then 18.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Family

• Father: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
• Mother: Fujiwara no Yoshiko (1358–1399)
• Wife: Hino Eiko (1390–1431)
• Concubines:
  • Tokudaiji Toshiko
  • Kohyoe-dono
• Children:
  • Ashikaga Yoshikazu

Era of Yoshimochi's bakufu

The years in which Yoshimochi was shōgun are more specifically identified by one era name or nengō.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

• Ōei (1394–1428)

References

• Ackroyd, Joyce I. (1982) Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 7574544
• Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese–Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Basingstoke, Hampshire; Macmillan. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC
• Sansom, George Bailey (1961). A History of Japan: 1334–1615. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC
• 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