Ashikaga Yoshinori

Portrait of Ashikaga Yoshinori by Zuikei Shūhō

Ashikaga Yoshinori ( Japanese 足 利 義 教 ; * July 12, 1394 ; † July 12, 1441 ) was the sixth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate and ruled from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of Japan . Yoshinori was the son of the third Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu .

After the death of the fifth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshikazu , in 1425, the fourth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimochi , who was still alive , Yoshikazu's father and Yoshinori's brother, could not decide on a successor. After his death in 1428, Yoshinori became Seii Taishogun in 1429 , after lots were drawn in front of the Iwashimizu Shrine in Kyoto to regulate the long-unexplained succession.

Yoshinori strengthened the power of the shogunate after his victory over Ashikaga Mochiuji in the Eikyo Rebellion of 1438 and normalized relations with China of the Ming Dynasty in 1433 through a trade agreement with Emperor Xuande .

Ashikaga Yoshinori was murdered by assassins according to the Japanese calendar on the 24th day of the 6th month of the year Kakitsu 1 (July 12, 1441) while attending a theater performance in the house of his general Akamatsu Mitsuke . This event became known as the Kakitsu Rebellion . One of the general's sons, who set fire to his own house, rode out of the city with the shogun's head speared on his sword. The remains were buried 14 days later, and Yoshinori was posthumously promoted from court to chancellor. In the following months of weakened government power, gangs managed to secure general debt relief ( tokusei ) by besieging the capital . His son, the seventh Shogun Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, succeeded him as Shogun the next year, but the power of the Shogunate was in decline.

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ E. Papinot: Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo 1992, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 , p. 31.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ashikaga is the family name, Yoshinori the first name.