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Ashikaga Yoshiharu

Military ruler of Japan from 1521 to 1546

Field	Value
name	Ashikaga Yoshiharu
足利義晴
image	Ashikaga Yoshiharu.jpg
office	Shōgun
term_start	1521
term_end	1545
predecessor	Ashikaga Yoshitane
successor	Ashikaga Yoshiteru
spouse	Keiju-in, daughter of Konoe Hisamichi
children	{{Plainlist
father	Ashikaga Yoshizumi
mother	Hino Akiko
monarch	{{Plainlist
birth_date
death_date
signature	Ashikaga Yoshiharu kao.jpg

足利義晴

Ashikaga Yoshiteru
Ashikaga Yoshiaki
Ashikaga Shūkō
Shiratori Yoshihisa
Rigen
Three daughters
Go-Kashiwabara
Go-Nara Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of the eleventh shōgun Ashikaga Yoshizumi.

From a western perspective, Yoshiharu is significant, as he was shōgun when the first contact of Japan with the European West took place in 1543. A Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, landed in Japan. In 1526, Yoshiharu invited archers from neighbouring provinces to come to the capital for an archery contest.

portrait of Ashikaga Yoshiharu by Tosa Mitsumochi in 1550.

Biography

His childhood name was Kameomaru (亀王丸). On 1 May 1521, after Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshitane and Hosokawa Takakuni struggled for power over the shogunate and Yoshitane withdrew to Awaji Island, the way was clear for Ashikaga Yoshiharu to be installed as shōgun as he enters Kyoto.

In 1521, Hosokawa Takakuni orchestrated the appointment of Yoshiharu as shōgun. By 1526, tumultuous events marked by the Kasai and Miyoshi rebellions unfolded. In 1528, the political landscape shifted dramatically as Yoshiharu was ousted by Miyoshi Nagamoto, setting the stage for a period of significant change.

The 1530s further complicated the era, beginning with the eruption of the Ikkō rebellion in 1533. 1536 became a pivotal year with Emperor Go-Nara's ascension, and by 1538, internal strife plagued the Koga Kubō's family, introducing new layers of discord. Later in 1546 Yoshiharu sought refuge in Ōmi, while his son, Yoshiteru, assumed the role of shōgun in exile.

Void of any political power and repeatedly forced from the capital in Kyoto, Yoshiharu retired in 1546 over a political struggle between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto making his son Ashikaga Yoshiteru the thirteenth shōgun. He died on 20th May, 1550. Later in 1568, supported by Oda Nobunaga, his other son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the fifteenth shōgun.

Family

Father: Ashikaga Yoshizumi
Mother: Hino Akiko
Wife: Keijuin (1514–1565)
Concubines:
- Oodate Tsuneoki's daughter
Children:
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki by Keijuin
- Ashikaga Yoshiteru by Keijuin
- Ashikaga Shuko (d. 1565)
- Shiratori Yoshihisa (d. 1547)
- daughter married Takeda Yoshimune
- daughter married Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
- daughter married Karasume Kosen
- Nun in Hyokoji temple

Eras of Yoshiharu's ''bakufu''

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

Daiei (1521–1528)
Kyōroku (1528–1532)
Tenbun (1532–1555)

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 585069

References

Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 332.
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. ''Annales des empereurs du japon'', p. 370.
Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 373.
Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 371.
Ackroyd, p. 331.
Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. p. 379.
Titsingh, {{Google books. 18oNAAAAIAAJ. pp. 370–378.

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