was the 11th ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamaku ...

'' 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 establi ...

who reigned from 1494 to 1508 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 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

. He was the son of

Ashikaga Masatomo Ashikaga Masatomo ( ja, 足利政知; 1435-1491) was a Japanese samurai, warrior of the Muromachi period and member of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga family. He was the first ''Horigoe Kubo'' (Governor-general based in Horigoe, Izu Province, so ...

and grandson of the sixth ''shōgun''

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 ...

.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). His childhood name was Seikō (清晃), Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka. Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshimasa.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) He was installed by

Hosokawa Masamoto was a deputy-'' shōgun'' of the Hosokawa clan of Japan, and son of Hosokawa Katsumoto. Masamoto was appointed to this rank during 1486. For a brief period this title was lost by Hatakeyama Masanaga but was regained in time. When Ashikaga Yo ...

as '' Sei-i Taishōgun''. He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th ''shōgun''

Ashikaga Yoshitane , 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 ...

, who became ''shōgun'' for a second period of time. Two of Yoshizumi's sons would themselves become ''shōguns''.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."

Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 332. He was the son of the eleventh ''shōgun'' Ash ...

would hold nominal powers as the twelfth Muromachi ''shōgun''; and Ashikaga Yoshihide assumed nominal powers as the fourteenth ''shōgun''.

Family

* Father:

(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: **

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'':Ackroyd, p. 331. * 1494 – Hosokawa Masamoto has Yoshizumi appointed ''shōgun''. * 1495 – Hōjō Sōun captures Odawara. * 1500 – Go-Kashiwabara succeeds.

Eras of Yoshizumi's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshizumi was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one

era name A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin ''regnum'' meaning kingdom, rule. Regnal years considered the date as an ordinal, not a cardinal number. For example, a monarch could have a first year of rule, a second year of ...

or ''

nengō The , also known as , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being ""), followed by the literal ...

''.Titsingh, * ''

Meiō , also known as Mei-ō, was a after ''Entoku'' and before ''Bunki''. This period spanned the years from through . Reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1492 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The old era ...

'' (1492–1501) * ''

Bunki was a after '' Meiō'' and before '' Eishō.'' This period spanned the years from February 1501 through February 1504. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1501 : The era name was changed to mark the anniversary of the enthronement o ...

'' (1501–1504) * '' Eishō'' (1504–1521)

Notes

References

* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron''. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.
OCLC 7574544
* 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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