Yoshiharu Ashikaga

Japanese: 足利義晴 - あしかが・よしはる

Year of death: Tenbun 19.5.4 (1550.5.20)
Year of birth: Eisho 8.3.5 (1511.4.2)
The 12th Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate. Son of Yoshizumi. Born in Okayama Castle in Omi (Omihachiman City, Shiga Prefecture). Lost his father soon after birth and grew up under the protection of Akamatsu Yoshimura in Harima (Hyogo Prefecture). At the end of 1521, Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane came into conflict with regent Hosokawa Takakuni and fled, and Takakuni invited Yoshiharu to become Shogun. In 1530, he became Dainagon with the rank of Junior Third Rank. In 1530, he established a Shogunate in Yanagiwara, Kita-Muromachi, but due to internal strife within the Takakuni clan, Yanagimoto Kenji of Tanba and others rebelled the following year, and in February of the same year, he was defeated by Hosokawa Harumoto, Miyoshi Motonaga and others in the Battle of Katsura-gawa, and fled to Omi with Takakuni. After that, he allowed the Sakai Shogunate, headed by his older brother Yoshitsuna, to rule the Kinai region, but in June 1532 he made peace with Harumoto and overthrew the Yoshitsuna government. However, with the Ikko Ikki and Hokke Ikki rebellions rampant, Kinai became a place of war, and in 1533 he finally returned to Kyoto. After the Hokke Ikki was crushed the following year, there was a lull, but Harumoto's steward Miyoshi Nagayoshi rose to power, and at the end of 1532 he fled to Omi and handed the shogunate over to his own son Yoshiteru. In June 1533, Harumoto was defeated by Nagayoshi in the Battle of Eguchi, Settsu, and died in exile in Omi the following year without being able to restore Kyoto. <References> Nagae Shoichi, "Miyoshi Nagayoshi," Imaya Akira, "The Sengoku Miyoshi Clan"

(Akira Imaya)

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没年：天文19.5.4(1550.5.20)
生年：永正8.3.5(1511.4.2)
室町幕府第12代将軍。義澄の子。近江岡山城(滋賀県近江八幡市)に生まれる。生後すぐ父を失い,播磨(兵庫県)赤松義村の庇護下に育つ。大永1(1521)年末,将軍足利義稙は執政細川高国と対立して出奔,高国は義晴を招き将軍に擁立した。享禄3(1530)年従三位大納言。大永5年北室町柳原に幕府を造営したが,高国一族の内訌から翌年丹波の柳本賢治らが反し,同7年2月の桂川の戦で細川晴元,三好元長らに大敗,高国と共に近江へ逃亡した。以後同母兄の義維を頂く堺公方府に畿内の支配を許すが,天文1(1532)年6月晴元と和睦し義維政権を倒した。しかし一向一揆や法華一揆の猖獗で畿内は戦乱の巷となり,同3年ようやく還京を果たす。翌々年法華一揆が潰滅して以降は小康状態を保つが,晴元の家宰三好長慶が台頭し,同15年末には近江に逃れて実子義輝に将軍を譲る。同18年6月摂津江口の戦で晴元が長慶に敗れ,京都回復を果たせないまま翌年近江で客死した。<参考文献>長江正一『三好長慶』,今谷明『戦国三好一族』

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