Ashikaga Tadayoshi

Ashikaga Tadayoshi

▪ Japanese military leader

born 1306, Japan
died March 13, 1352, Kamakura, Japan

      military and administrative genius who engineered many of the triumphs of his older brother, Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate (hereditary military dictatorship) that dominated Japan from 1338 to 1573.

      When in 1333 Takauji joined forces with the emperor Go-Daigo (Daigo, Go-), Tadayoshi accompanied him, becoming a leading commander of the imperial forces. In 1335, however, Tadayoshi revolted against the imperial court, and when he had succeeded in rallying widespread support, Takauji joined his revolt, taking over the command of the rebel armies, which captured the imperial capital at Kyōto in 1338. The emperor fled to the Yoshino Mountains, south of Nara, and Takauji installed in Kyōto an emperor who agreed to appoint him shogun.

      Takauji proved to be inept at administrative matters, and for almost a decade Tadayoshi took charge of the government. Eventually, however, a feud erupted between Tadayoshi and some of Takauji's closest retainers, and Tadayoshi joined the followers of Go-Daigo, who had continued his rule in the area around Yoshino. Although Tadayoshi's forces immediately proved successful, his resources were limited; and he was eventually taken prisoner by Takauji, who had him confined in Kamakura, where he was allegedly poisoned.

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