Ashikaga Yoshiharu

Ashikaga Yoshiharu (足利 義晴, Ashikaga Yoshiharu^? April 2, 1511—May 20, 1550) was the 12th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held the reigns of supreme power from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of the eleventh shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.^[1]

• Daiei 1, on the 25th day of the 3rd month (1521): After the tenth shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate and Yoshitane withdrew to Awaji Island, the way was clear for Minamoto-no Yoshiharu to be installed as shogun.^[2]
  • Daiei 1, in the 6th month (1521): Yoshiteru enters Kyoto.^[1]
    • Daiei 6, in the 12th month (1526): Shogun Yoshiharu invited archers from neighboring provinces to come to the capital for an archery contest.^[3]

      Not having any political power and repeatedly being forced out of the capital of Kyoto, Yoshiharu eventually retired in 1546 over a political struggle between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto making his son Ashikaga Yoshiteru the Thirteenth shogun.

      • Tenbun 19, the 4th day of the 5th month (May 20, 1550): Yoshiharu died.^[4]

        Supported by Oda Nobunaga, his son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shogun.

        From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shogun in 1542, when the first contact of Japan with the European West when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan.

        Eras of Yoshiharu's bakufu

        The years in which Yoshiharu was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.^[5]

        • Daiei (1521-1528)
        • Kyōroku (1528-1532)
        • Tenbun (1532-1555)

        References

        1. ^ ^{a b} Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 370.
        2. ^ Tisingh, p. 371.
        3. ^ Titsingh, p. 373.
        4. ^ Titsingh, p. 379.
        5. ^ Titsigh, pp. 370-378.

        
        

        
        

        • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834), [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland...Click for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

        
        

        Preceded by: Ashikaga Yoshitane

        Muromachi Shogun: Ashikaga Yoshiharu 1521-1546

        Succeeded by: Ashikaga Yoshiteru

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