Ashikaga Yoshikazu

Reign: 1423 – 1425
Life: 1407–1425

Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Sei-i Taishōgun at age 18 by East Asian age reckoning, but he would die within two years. According to Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, Yoshikazu's death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation. In 1423, Yoshikazu was appointed as shōgun. Yoshikazu would rule for a brief reign as he dies in 1425 and is succeeded by his father Yoshimochi that same year. When his father died in 1428, Go-Hanazono ascends the throne in second repudiation of agreement. The sixth official shōgun became Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429.

During Ashikaga Yoshikazu's reign, Henry VI of England ruled England, Charles VII of France ruled France, and John I of Portugal ruled Portugal.

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A History of Japan to 1334 by George Sansom

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