Ashikaga Yoshikazu


Ashikaga Yoshikazu was the 5th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1423 to 1425 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikazu was the son of the fourth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimochi.
Yoshimochi ceded power to his son, and Yoshikazu became Sei-i Taishōgun at age 18; but he would die within two years. According to Oguri Hangan ichidaiki, Yoshikazu's death was hastened by a life of drunken dissipation. His buddhist name was Chōjo'in.
Significant events shape the period during which Yoshikazu was shōgun:
Yoshimochi was succeeded by his brother, the sixth shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori, in 1429.

Era of Yoshikazu's ''bakufu''

The years in which Yoshikazu was shōgun are encompassed within a single era name or nengō.