Ashikaga Yoshimura

, also known as , was the 10th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan.

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 YoshitadaAckroyd, p. 331. — 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.

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.

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

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. In 1493, Yoshitane lost in a power struggle against Hosokawa Masamoto and was formally replaced by the eleventh ''shōgun'', Ashikaga Yoshizumi.

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara accedes to the throne in 1500. Ōuchi Yoshioki restores Yoshitane to the position of ''Sei-i Taishōgun'' from Yoshizumi. 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. In 1521, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara appoints Ashikaga Yoshiharu shogun. Takakuni arranged for the replacement of Yoshitane with the twelfth ''shōgun'', Ashikaga Yoshiharu.

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.Titsingh,

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. 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.Ackroyd, p. 298.

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.

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.

Eras of Yoshitane's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshitane was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or ''nengō''.Titsingh,
* ''Entoku'' (1489–1492)
* ''Meiō'' (1492–1501)
* ''Bunki'' (1501–1504)
* '' Eishō'' (1504–1521)
* ''Daiei'' (1521–1528)

Notes

References

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

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