Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Sei-i Taishōgun at age 18,[2] but he would die within two years.[3] According to Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, Yoshikazu's death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation.[4] His buddhist name was Chōtoku-in (長得院).
In 1423, Yoshikazu was appointed as shōgun. A year later, the Emperor Go-Kameyama dies. 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.[5] The sixth official shōgun became Ashikaga Yoshinori in 1429.[6]
Era of Yoshikazu's bakufu
The years in which Yoshikazu was shōgun are encompassed within a single era name or nengō.[7]
^Titsingh, p. 329., p. 329, at Google Books; Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 234 n.10; n.b., Yoshikasu (b. 1407 – named shōgun in 1423) = 18yrs. In this period, "children were considered one year old at birth and became two the following New Year's Day; and all people advanced a year that day, not on their actual birthday."]
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