Ashikaga Yoshizumi

Ashikaga Yoshizumi

In this Japanese name, the family name is Ashikaga.

Ashikaga Yoshizumi (足利義澄, January 15, 1481 – September 6, 1511) was the 11th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori.^[1] Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka.^[2]

Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.^[3] He was installed by Hosokawa Masamoto as Seii Taishogun.^[1] He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane, who became shogun for a second period of time.^[4]

Two of Yoshizumi's sons would themselves become shoguns.^[5] Ashikaga Yoshiharu would hold nominal powers as the twelfth Muromachi shogun;^[6] and Ashikaga Yoshihide would assume nominal powers as the fourteenth shogun.^[7]

Events of Yoshizumi's bakufu

Significant events shape the period during which Yoshizumi was shogun:^[8]

1494 – Hosokawa Masamoto has Yoshizumi appointed shogun.^[8]
1495 – Hōjō Sōun captures Odawara.^[8]
1500 – Go-Kashiwabara succeeds.^[8]

Eras of Yoshizumi's bakufu

The years in which Yoshizumi was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.^[9]

Meiō (1492–1501)
Bunki (1501–1504)
Eishō (1504–1521)

Notes

1 2 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 362., p. 362, at Google Books
↑ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p. 298.
↑ Ackroyd, p. 298; n.b., Shogun Yoshimasa was succeeded by Shogun Yoshihisa (Yoshimasa's natural son), then by Shogun Yoshitane (Yoshimasa's first adopted son), and then by Shogun Yoshizumi (Yoshimasa's second adopted son)
↑ Titsingh, p. 367., p. 367, at Google Books
↑ 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."
↑ Titsingh, p. 370., p. 370, at Google Books
↑ Titsingh, p. 386., p. 386, at Google Books
1 2 3 4 Ackroyd, p. 331.
↑ Titsingh, pp. 362–371., p. 362, at Google Books

References

Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702214851; OCLC 7574544
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069

Preceded by Ashikaga Yoshitane	Muromachi Shogun 1494–1508	Succeeded by Ashikaga Yoshitane

Ashikaga family tree

Takauji ⁽¹⁾
1305–1338–1358

Yoshiakira⁽²⁾
1330–1358-1367–1368

Yoshimitsu⁽³⁾
1358–1367-1395–1408

Yoshimochi⁽⁴⁾
1386–1395-1423–1428

Yoshikazu⁽⁵⁾
1407–1423–1425

Yoshinori⁽⁶⁾
1394–1428–1441

Yoshikatsu⁽⁷⁾
1433–1442–1443

Masatomo
1435–1491

Yoshimasa^{(8)^{[lower-roman 1]}^{[lower-roman 2]}}
1435–1449-1474–1490

Yoshimi
1439–1491

Yoshizumi^{(11)^{[lower-roman 1]}}
1478–1493-1508–1513

Yoshihisa^{(9)^{[lower-roman 1]}}
1465–1474–1489

Yoshitane^{(10)^{[lower-roman 1]}}
1465–1490-1493+1508-1521–1522

Yoshiharu⁽¹²⁾
1510–1521-1545–1550

Yoshitsuna
1509–1573

Yoshiteru⁽¹³⁾
1535–1545–1565

Yoshiaki⁽¹⁵⁾
1537–1568-1573–1597

Yoshihide⁽¹⁴⁾
1538–1564–1568

Notes:

1 2 3 4 Yoshimasa's successors were Yoshihisa (son), Yoshitane (first adopted son) and Yoshizumi (second adopted son)
↑ The broken lines indicate adoptions within the shogunal clan

Chronology, dates and paternity of the Ashikaga shoguns

	Name	Lived	Reigned	Son of
1st	Takauji	1305–1358	1338–1358	Sadauji
2nd	Yoshiakira	1330–1368	1358–1367	Takauji
3rd	Yoshimitsu	1358–1408	1367–1395	Yoshiakira
4th	Yoshimochi	1386–1428	1395–1423	Yoshimitsu
5th	Yoshikazu	1407–1425	1423–1425	Yoshimochi
6th	Yoshinori	1394–1441	1428–1441	Yoshimitsu
7th	Yoshikatsu	1433–1443	1442–1443	Yoshinori
8th	Yoshimasa	1435–1490	1449–1474	Yoshinori

	Name	Lived	Reigned	Son of
9th	Yoshihisa	1465–1489	1474–1489	Yoshimasa
10th	Yoshitane	1465–1522	1490–1493 1508–1521	Yoshimi
11th	Yoshizumi	1478–1513	1493–1508	Masatomo
12th	Yoshiharu	1510–1550	1521–1545	Yoshizumi
13th	Yoshiteru	1535–1565	1545–1565	Yoshiharu
14th	Yosihide	1538–1568	1564–1568	Yoshitsuna
15th	Yoshiaki	1537–1597	1568–1573	Yoshiharu

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