Ashikaga Yoshitane

Events of Yoshitane's ''bakufu''

Yoshitane was appointed shōgun in 1490. Hōjō Sōun gains control of Izu the following year. In 1493, Hatakeyama Yoshitoyo forced Yoshitane to abdicate after he lost in a power struggle against Hosokawa Masamoto. Yoshitane was formally replaced by the eleventh shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi.

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara acceded to the throne in 1500. Ōuchi Yoshioki restored Yoshitane to the position of Sei-i Taishōgun from Yoshizumi. In 1520, a succession crisis occurred over Hosokawa Takakuni's post. When Takakuni became Kanrei (shogun's deputy), Yoshitane strongly opposed him and he was driven out. In 1521, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara appointed Ashikaga Yoshiharu as the twelfth shōgun after Takakuni arranged him to replace Yoshitane.

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.

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.

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.

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

Eras of Yoshitane's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshitane was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

• 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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References

1. Titsigh, Issac. (1834). {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. ''Annales des empereurs du japon'', p. 361–362.
2. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. pp. 367–371.
3. Ackroyd, p. 331.
4. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 364.
5. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 361.
6. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 362.
7. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 366–367.
8. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 370.
9. 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."
10. Ackroyd, p. 298.
11. Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. pp. 352–372.