was the seventh ''

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'' of the

Ashikaga shogunate The , also known as the , was the feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Muromachi-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 669. The Ashikaga shogunate was establ ...

who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the

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. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th ''

Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). His childhood name was Harutor ...

with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463). His childhood name was Chiyachamaru (千也茶丸).

Hino Tomiko was a prominent figure during the Muromachi period and the beginning of the Sengoku period. She was daughter to Hino Shigemasa and was the official wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate (at first Tomiko wa ...

, wife of

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, at first was betrothed to Yoshikatsu. In 1441, ''Shōgun'' Yoshinori is murdered at the age of 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke and shortly thereafter it is determined that his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu will become the new ''shōgun''. Yoshikatsu is confirmed as ''shōgun'' the following year.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.'' 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 three years. His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named ''shōgun''. Several years after he became shogun, Yoshinari changed his name to Yoshimasa, and he is better known by that name.

Era of Yoshikatsu's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshikatsu was ''shōgun'' are more specifically identified by only one

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or ''

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''.Titsingh, * ''

Kakitsu was a after ''Eikyō'' and before '' Bun'an''. This period spanned the years from February 1441 through February 1444. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1451 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The prev ...

'' (1441–1444)

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* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron''. Brisbane:

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* Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822''.
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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
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Era of Yoshikatsu's ''bakufu''

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