Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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7th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
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About Ashikaga Yoshikatsu
- Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (?? ??, March 19, 1434 – August 16, 1443) was the 7th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
- Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463).
- His childhood name was Chiyachamaru (????).
- Hino Tomiko, Wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa at first was betrothed with Yoshikatsu. Significant events which shaped the period during which Yoshikatsu was shogun: July 12, 1441 (Kakitsu 1, 24th day of the 6th month): Shogun Yoshinori is murdered at the age of 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke; and shortly thereafter, it is determined that his 8-year-old son, Yoshikatsu, will become the new shogun. 1442 (Kakitsu 2): Yoshikatsu is confirmed as shogun. August 16, 1443 (Kakitsu 3, 21 day of the 7th month): Shogun Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10.
- Fond of horse riding, he was fatally injured in a fall from a horse.
- He had been shogun for only three years.
- His 8-year-old brother, Yoshinari, was then named shogun.
- Several years after he became shogun, Yoshinari changed his name to Yoshimasa, and he is better known by that name.
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