Ashikaga Yoshikatsu

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Ashikaga Yoshikatsu ( Japanese 足 利 義 勝 , * March 9, 1434 , † August 16, 1443 ) was the seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate and ruled from 1441 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan .

Yoshikatsu was the son of the sixth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshinori .

Yoshikatsu became Seii Taishogun at the age of 8 , a year after his father Yoshinori was murdered by Akamatsu Mitsusuke during the Kakitsu Rebellion of 1441 .

However, Yoshikatsu died two years later after falling from a horse and was succeeded as the eighth shogun by his younger brother, Ashikaga Yoshimasa in 1449 .

literature

  • John Whitney Hall (Ed.): Fischer Weltgeschichte Vol. 20 The Japanese Empire, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-596-60020-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Whitney Hall (ed.): Fischer Weltgeschichte Vol. 20 The Japanese Empire, Frankfurt 1984, ISBN 3-596-60020-0 , p. 32
personal data
SURNAME Ashikaga, Yoshikatsu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 足 利 義 勝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese shogun
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1434
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1443