Ashikaga Yoshitane

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo, also known as Template:Nihongo, was the 10th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493<ref>Titsigh, Issac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref> and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Yoshitane was the son of Ashikaga Yoshimi and grandson of the sixth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori. In his early life, he was named Yoshiki (sometimes translated as Yoshimura), and then Yoshitada<ref name="ackroyd331">Ackroyd, p. 331.</ref> — including the period of when he is first installed as shōgun; however, he changed his name to Yoshitane in 1501 in a period when he was temporarily exiled, and it is by this name that he is generally known today.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

The 9th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa died in 1489 on a battlefield of southern Ōmi Province. Yoshihisa left no heir; and Yoshitane became Sei-i Taishōgun a year later.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Events of Yoshitane's bakufu

Yoshitane was appointed shōgun in 1490. Hōjō Sōun gains control of Izu the following year. In 1493, Hatakeyama Yoshitoyo forces Yoshitane to abdicate.<ref name="ackroyd331" /> In 1493, Yoshitane lost in a power struggle against Hosokawa Masamoto and was formally replaced by the eleventh shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Wooden statue of Yoshitane at Tōji-in.

Tomb of Yoshitane at Saiko-ji, Tokushima Prefecture.

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara accedes to the throne in 1500. Ōuchi Yoshioki restores Yoshitane to the position of Sei-i Taishōgun from Yoshizumi.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref> In 1520, a succession crisis occurred over Hosokawa Takakuni's post. When Takakuni becomes Kanrei (shogun's deputy), Yoshitane strongly opposed him and he was driven out.<ref name="ackroyd331" /> In 1521, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara<ref name="ackroyd331" /> appoints Ashikaga Yoshiharu shogun. Takakuni arranged for the replacement of Yoshitane with the twelfth shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu.<ref name="titsingh370" />

Eventually, after a further power struggle with the Hosokawa clan and especially with Hosokawa Takakuni, Yoshitane was forced to withdraw to Awaji Island. He died in Awa province, on the island of Shikoku in 1523.<ref name="titsingh370">Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Yoshitane's heirs and successors

Shōgun Yoshitane adopted the son of Yoshizumi who was his cousin, Ashikaga Yoshitsuna and he designated Yoshitsuna as his heir and as his anticipated successor as shogun.<ref>Ackroyd, p. 385 n104; excerpt, "Some apparent contradictions exist in various versions of the pedigree owing to adoptions and name-changes. Yoshitsuna (sometimes also read Yoshikore) changed his name and was adopted by Yoshitane. Some pedigrees show Yoshitsuna as Yoshizumi's son, and Yoshifuyu as Yoshizumi's son."</ref> However, when Yoshitane died prematurely, he was not succeeded by who he had chosen; rather, his father's newly designated heir was accepted by the shogunate as shōgun Yoshizumi.<ref name="ackroyd298">Ackroyd, p. 298.</ref>

In other words, after the death of his son, shōgun Yoshimasa adopted the son of his brother, Yoshimi. After the death of his adopted son, Yoshimasa adopted the son of another brother, Masatomo. Shogun Yoshimasa was succeeded by shōgun Yoshihisa (Yoshimasa's natural son), then by shōgun Yoshitane (Yoshimasa's first adopted son), and then by shōgun Yoshizumi (Yoshimasa's second adopted son). Yoshizumi's progeny would become shōguns in due course.<ref name="ackroyd298" />

Eventually, the great-grandson of Yoshitane would be installed as a puppet shōgun for a brief period, but external power struggles would unseat him, and the Ashikaga dynasty of shōguns would end.<ref name="ackroyd298" />

Family

• Father: Ashikaga Yoshimi
• Mother: daughter of Uramatsu Shigemasa
• Wife: Seiyun'in
• Concubine: daughter of Yamana Toyoshige
• Children:
  • Takewakamaru
  • a daughter
• Adopted Son: Ashikaga Yoshitsuna

Eras of Yoshitane's bakufu

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

• Entoku (1489–1492)
• Meiō (1492–1501)
• Bunki (1501–1504)
• Eishō (1504–1521)
• Daiei (1521–1528)

References

• Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 7574544
• 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 5850691.