Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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11th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
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About Ashikaga Yoshizumi
- Ashikaga Yoshizumi (?? ??, January 15, 1481 – September 6, 1511) was the 11th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan.
- He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori.
- His childhood name was Seiko (??), Yoshizumi was first called Yoshito (sometimes translated as Yoshimichi), then Yoshitaka.Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
- He was installed by Hosokawa Masamoto as Sei-i Taishogun.
- He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane, who became shogun for a second period of time.Two of Yoshizumi's sons would themselves become shoguns.
- Ashikaga Yoshiharu would hold nominal powers as the twelfth Muromachi shogun; and Ashikaga Yoshihide assumed nominal powers as the fourteenth shogun.
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