Ashikaga Yoshizumi

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Template:Nihongo was the 11th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori.<ref name="titsingh362">Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Template:Google books</ref> His childhood name was Seikō (清晃), Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka.<ref>Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 298.</ref>

Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.<ref name="ackroyd298">Ackroyd, p. 298; n.b., Shōgun 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)</ref> He was installed by Hosokawa Masamoto as Sei-i Taishōgun.<ref name="titsingh362"/> He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shōgun Ashikaga Yoshitane, who became shōgun for a second period of time.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Two of Yoshizumi's sons would themselves become shōguns.<ref name="ackroyd385">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> Ashikaga Yoshiharu would hold nominal powers as the twelfth Muromachi shōgun;<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref> and Ashikaga Yoshihide assumed nominal powers as the fourteenth shōgun.<ref>Titsingh, Template:Google books</ref>

Wooden statue of Yoshizumi at Tōji-in.

Family

• Father: Ashikaga Masatomo (1435–1491)
• Mother: daughter of Mushanakoji Takamitsu
• Adopted Father: Ashikaga Yoshimasa
• Adopted Mother: Hino Tomiko
• Wife: Hino Akiko
• Concubine: speculated daughter of Shiba Yoshihiro or daughter of Rokkaku Takayori
• Children:
  • Ashikaga Yoshiharu by Akiko
  • Ashikaga Yoshitsuna by daughter of Shiba or Rokkaku

Events of Yoshizumi's bakufu

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshizumi was shōgun:<ref name="ackroyd331">Ackroyd, p. 331.</ref>

• 1494 – Hosokawa Masamoto has Yoshizumi appointed shōgun.<ref name="ackroyd331" />
• 1495 – Hōjō Sōun captures Odawara.<ref name="ackroyd331" />
• 1500 – Go-Kashiwabara succeeds.<ref name="ackroyd331" />

Eras of Yoshizumi's bakufu

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

• Meiō (1492–1501)
• Bunki (1501–1504)
• Eishō (1504–1521)

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 585069