was the fifth ''

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'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the

Muromachi period The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (''Muromachi bakufu'' or ''Ashikaga bakufu''), which was officially established in 1338 by t ...

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. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth ''

Ashikaga Yoshimochi 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.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Succession and rule In 1394, ...

. Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became '' Sei-i Taishōgun'' at age 18, but he would die within two years. According to ''Oguri Hangan ichidaiki'', Yoshikazu's death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation. His buddhist name was Chōjo'in (長得院). In 1423, was Yoshikazu appointed ''shōgun''. A year later the Emperor Go-Kameyama dies. Yoshikazu would rule for a brief reign as he dies in 1425 and is succeeded by his father Yoshimochi that same year. When his father died in 1428,

Go-Hanazono (July 10, 1418 – January 18, 1471) was the 102nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'')後花園天皇 (102) retrieved 2013-8-28. His reign spanned the years from 1428 throug ...

ascends the throne in second repudiation of agreement.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 330.'' The sixth official ''shōgun'' became Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429.

Era of Yoshikazu's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshikazu was ''shōgun'' are encompassed within a single era name or '' nengō''.Titsingh, * ''

Ōei was a after ''Meitoku'' and before ''Shōchō''. This period spanned the years from July 1394 through April 1428. Reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1394 : The new era name was created because of plague. The previous era ended and a ...

'' (1394–1428)

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* Ackroyd, Joyce I. (1982) ''Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron''. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
OCLC 7574544
* De Benneville, James S. (1915) ''Tales of the Samurai: Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, being the story of the lives, the adventures, and the misadventures of the Hangwan-dai Kojirō Sukeshige and Terute-hime, his wife''.. Yokohama: The Fukuin Printing Co
OCLC 45027056
* 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''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 585069

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