Ashikaga yoshimitsu biography book

Find a book. Visit Publisher's Website. There is a relative dearth of research on the latter half of the Muromachi shogunate, especially the period overlapping with the early Sengoku period. The main reason for this is that little interest has been evinced in the Muromachi shogunate during the Sengoku period, and up until around the s there was very little research on the subject.

But another reason is that there exist few collections of source materials to provide the basis for research. Against this background, there had previously been published two volumes of documents issued by the eighth shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the ninth shogun Ashikaga Yoshihiro Yoshihisa so as to provide materials for research, and this book is a sequel to these earlier two volumes.

A volume compiled by Imatani Akira Collected Documents of the Muromachi Shogunate is well known as a collection of historical sources pertaining to the Muromachi shogunate, but it consists of only jointly signed documents issued by low-level functionaries, and there had not existed any collections of documents issued by shoguns and shogunal deputies.

In this sense, the series of which this book forms a part could be said to be epoch-making and extremely important. However, it is probably difficult to judge from these figures alone whether the number of documents issued was large or small. In addition, Takeda Shingen issued about 1, documents.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Among the Muromachi shoguns, the largest number of documents was issued by the first shogun Takauji, followed by the second shogun Yoshiakira, and they both issued more than 1, documents. They were followed by the third shogun Yoshimitsu and the eighth shogun Yoshimasa, who both issued about documents, and the twelfth shogun Yoshiharu and the fifteenth shogun Yoshiaki, who both issued about documents.

Yoshitane thus issued comparatively few documents, and only about one-third of them have survived in the form in which they were originally issued. It can therefore be said that the publication of a collection of historical sources such as this volume, bringing together documents issued by shoguns, is of great significance. Print this page.