Ashikaga Yoshiharu

Ashikaga Yoshiharu ( Japanese 足利義晴 ; * April 2, 1511 ; † May 20, 1550 ) was the 12th Shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate . He ruled from 1521 to 1546 in the late Muromachi period in Japan , and was the son of the 11th shogun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi .

After the 10th Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshitane , and Hosokawa Takakuni fought for power in the shogunate in 1521, Yoshitane fled to Awaji Island and Yoshiharu was installed as a puppet shogun. Without any political power and repeatedly forced to leave the capital Kyoto , Yoshiharu finally withdrew in 1546 because of a political dispute between Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Hosokawa Harumoto and made his son Ashikaga Yoshiteru the 13th Shogun.

His son Ashikaga Yoshiaki became the 15th Shogun with the support of Oda Nobunaga .

Yoshiharu was Shogun at the time when the first contact between Japan and Europe came about in 1542 when a Portuguese ship deviated from its course to China.

literature

E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8

Individual evidence

^ E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan . Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 , p. 34 gives 1510 as the year of birth and 1545 as the end of the reign (conversion error).

personal data
SURNAME	Ashikaga Yoshiharu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	足利義晴
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese shogun
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1511
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1550

[1] E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan . Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 , p. 34 gives 1510 as the year of birth and 1545 as the end of the reign (conversion error).