Ashikaga Mitsukane

A military commander in the early Muromachi period. Son of the second Kamakura kubo, Ashikaga Ujimitsu. In 1398 (Oei 5), he succeeded his father Ujimitsu as the Kamakura kubo at the age of 21, and was appointed Left Horse Captain, Junior Fifth Rank (later becoming Left Guard Captain, Junior Fourth Rank). The following year, in 1399, in order to strengthen his control over southern Oshu, he dispatched his younger brothers Mitsusada and Mitsutada to southern Oshu as Inamura Gosho and Sasagawa Gosho, respectively. At the end of the same year, he attempted to march to Kyoto to support the powerful shugo daimyo Ouchi Yoshihiro in the Oei Rebellion, but gave up after Yoshihiro's defeat and the Kanto Kanrei Uesugi Norisada's admonition. He died of illness on July 22, 1600, at the age of 32. He was buried at Zuisenji Shokoin in Kamakura. His posthumous name was Shokoin Taigaku Doan.

[Osamu Tashiro]

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室町前期の武将。鎌倉公方(くぼう)第2代足利氏満(うじみつ)の子。1398年（応永5）父氏満の後を継ぎ21歳で鎌倉公方となり、従(じゅ)五位下左馬頭(さまのかみ)に叙任された（のち従四位下左兵衛督(さひょうえのかみ)となる）。翌1399年、南奥州の支配強化のため、弟の満貞(みつさだ)、満直(みつただ)をそれぞれ稲村御所(いなむらごしょ)、篠川(ささがわ)御所として南奥州に派遣した。また同年末、有力守護大名大内義弘(よしひろ)の乱（応永(おうえい)の乱）に荷担して上洛(じょうらく)を企てようとしたが、義弘の敗北と関東管領(かんれい)上杉憲定(のりさだ)の諫止(かんし)によって断念した。応永16年7月22日、32歳で病没。鎌倉の瑞泉寺勝光院(ずいせんじしょうこういん)に葬られた。法名は勝光院泰岳道安。

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